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Filming Windrush
Windrush arrivals, from ‘Pathé Reporter Meets’, Pathé News 48/51I have been having an online discussion with a couple of journalists about newsreels of the Empire Windrush and the arrival of West...
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News past
The News newspaper ran 1805-1839I have this vague plan to bring all of my blog posts under the one site. I have too many websites, either active or passive (but still kept live), and it is increasingly...
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News and the storytelling brain
After four months of Coronavirus lockdown, I was able to sit once more in a coffee shop, drink my coffee and read a newspaper. It felt like returning to myself.The shop was a Costa branch; it’s about...
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The sorting of lists
The first years of the British newspaper, in chronological order A few years ago I thought it would be a useful things for the British Library (my employers) to have a shareable list of its newspapers....
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Matters of note
I have been reading We Are Bellingcat, by Eliot Higgins. Subtitled ‘an intelligence agency for the people’, it is an account of the rise of of a group of dedicated open-source investigators, whose...
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Free newspapers
Masthead for The Lady’s Newspaper, 9 February 1867. Public domain. It is good to be involved in a good thing. Last week, after years of development and the coming together of assorted initiatives, the...
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Making an exhibition of ourselves
Hereafter ensue the trewe encountre or … batayle lately don betwene. Engla[n]de and: Scotlande – 1513 pamphlet reporting on the Battle of Flodden Here’s some breaking news for you… On 23 April, and...
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Beautiful news
Visualising Victorian News at the British Library Two years I wrote about an exhibition of the remarkable infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the National Association for the...
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Encountering the news
One of the special features of the British Library’s Breaking the News exhibition is a large-scale panorama, created by designers Northover&Brown. Objects and graphics have been placed into flowing...
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The book of news
Such has been the flurry of business surrounding the British Library’s exhibition on the history of British news, Breaking the News, that I have neglected to mention here what should be its most...
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