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From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2005
From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899. Bob Clarke. Ashgate. [pounds sterling]49.95. viii + 283 pages. ISBN 0-7546-5007-3. The author's introduction paints a description of Grub Street in the 17th century--the street is now hidden beneath the deadening weight of the Barbican and his survey begins in the next chapter with a discussion of the early newsbooks, the role of government, taxes, the nature of the news reported and the means of censorship.
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Mr Clarke bases his survey on a thorough mastery of the sources and shows how papers reflected the times in which they were produced and the readership at which they were aimed. The naf reader who still thinks that the growth of papers is the growth of 'democracy' is in for a shock. Rather, the papers produced were of an enormous range and quality, from sheer rubbish to occasionally objective reporting. He ends his survey at the end of the Victorian era when newspaper owners and even journalists had become respectable while papers had become powers in the land, a far cry from their origins.
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