Spanning the period from 1700 through to the 1970s, this annual reflects a range of work on serial publication, addressed chronologically, geographically and theoretically. It demonstrates how serial publication followed the expansion of international trade and bound cultural elements together.

Preface The Eighteenth Century Locating the Serial: Some Ideas about the Position of the Serial in Relation to the Eighteenth-Century Print Culture by Michael Harris Sons of Liberty and Their Silenced Sisters: "Ladies Magazines" and Women's Self-Representation in the Early Republic by Amy Beth Aronson The World of Edward Moore and the World of the English Parson by Christopher T. Hamilton The Nineteenth Century Early Nineteenth-Century Reform Newspapers in the Provinces: The Newcastle Chronicle and Bristol Mercury by Peter Brett Land Reform, Community-Building and the Labor Press in Antebellum America and Britain by Jamie L. Bronstein Destined Not to Survive: The Illustrated Newspapers of Colonial Australia by Peter Dowling Gendered Space and the British Press by Laurel Brake Toward a Cultural Critique of Victorian Periodicals by Mark W. Turner Tokens of Antiquity: The Newspaper Press and the Shaping of National Identity in Wales 1870-1900 by Tom O'Malley, Stuart Allen and Andrew Thompson The Twentieth Century America's Press-Radio Rivalry: Circulation Managers and Newspaper Boys during the Depression by Todd Alexander Postol Trial by Fire: Newspaper Coverage of the Nuremberg Proceedings by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht From Counterculture to Over-the-Counter Culture: An Analysis of Rolling Stone's Coverage of the New Left in the United States from 1967-1975 by David J. Atkin Sources for Newspaper and Periodical History Annual Review of Work in Newspaper History by Diana Dixon At the Coal-Face of History: Personal Reflections on Using Newspapers as a Source by Glenn R. Wilkinson Reviews Index