Promoting taste in the provincial press: National and local culture in eighteenth-century newcastle upon tyne

British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Berry, Helen ^a  

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EID: 13944273588     PISSN: 0141867X     EISSN: 17540208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2002.tb00241.x     Document Type: Review

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2. Or. conversely, studies of British unification have focused on Anglo-Scottish relations, whilst assuming a priori a homogenised 'English' national identity; see, for example. Colin Kidd, Subverting Scotland's Past. Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of Anglo-British Identity, 1689-1830 (Cambridge [993)
3. Hannah Barker, Newspapers. Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford 1998). passim
4. See also James Raven's case study of mercantile groups and the Leeds provincial press in Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (Oxford 1992). p.112-37
5. Jonathan Barry, 'The Press and the Politics of Culture in Bristol, 1660-1775', in Culture. Politics and Society in Britain. 1660-1800. ed. J. Black and J. Gregory (Manchester 1991), p.49-81
6. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd edn (New York and London 1991)
7. Brewer. Pleasures of the Imagination, p.504
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13. Attributed to James Barry: quoted in Raymond Williams. Keywords. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, 2nd edn (Glasgow 1993), p.313
14. For an analysis of the social function of taste as a 'classifier' of individuals, see Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, transl. Richard Nice (London 1984). passim
15. Joseph Addison, Spectator, no.409 (19 June 1712)
16. Donald Read. 'North of England Newspapers (C.1700-C.1900) and their Value to Historians'. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Proceedings 7 (1956-1959). p.200
17. Frank Manders. 'The History of the Newspaper Press in Northeast England', in The 'Fourth Estate' at Work in Northumberland and Durham, ed. Peter Isaac (Richmond. Surrey 1999). p.1
18. Read. 'North of England Newspapers', p.201: C. Y. Ferdinand. Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford 1997). p.11
19. Manders, 'History of the Newspaper Press', p.1; Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1557-1775, ed. H. R. Plomer, H. G. Aldis et al. (Ilkley 1977). p.6o, 308
20. Maurice Milne. The Newspapers of Northumberland and Durham (Newcastle 1971). p.34-35, Manders, 'History of the Newspaper Press', p.1
21. Peter Isaac. 'The Earliest Proprietors of the Newcastle Chronicle', in Newspapers in the Northeast, ed. Isaac, p. 153
22. John Feather, The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge 1985), p.21-22
23. Isaac, 'Earliest Proprietors', p. 156
24. see also Stephen Harbottle, The Reverend William Turner. Dissent and Reform in Georgian Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne 1997), p.36, 56. 61
25. The Darlington Pamphlet, or County of Durham Intelligencer, published by J. Sadler, appeared between May and November 1772
26. See John R. Page. Darlington Newspapers. Darlington Public Library Local History Publications, no.3 (1972)
27. Milne, Newspapers, p.50
28. Isaac Thompson, A Collection of Poems, Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects (Newcastle 1731)-
29. Newcastle Courant, no.337 (9 October 1731). advertised that Thompson's collection of poems would be published the following week, price 3s. to subscribers: 'N.B. There are only 500 Copies printed off, near 400 of which are already subscribed for.'
30. Newcastle Courant, no.16, vol.2 (8 October 1720)
31. Newcastle Courant, no.29 (3-6 October 1711)
32. Newcastle Courant, no.330 (21 August 1731)
33. Newcastle Courant, no.157 (28-30 July 1712)
34. Newcastle Courant, no.2486 (1-8 August 1741)
35. Newcastle Courant, no.4437 (3 October 1761)
36. Newcastle Courant, no.4482 (14 August, 1762)
37. Newcastle Courant, no.304 (2-5 July 1712)
38. Newcastle Courant, no.388 (30 September 1732)
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40. Newcastle Courant, no.2487 (8-15 August 1741)
41. Newcastle Courant, no.3059 (8 August 1752)
42. Newcastle Courant, no.381 (12 August 1732)
43. Newcastle Courant, no.3060 (15 August 1752)
44. Newcastle Courant, no.5470 (4 August 1781)
45. It was remarked upon with some satisfaction, for example, when 'Her Majesty was Dressed Entirely in the English Taste' (Newcastle Courant, no.4428. 19 September 1761)
46. Newcastle Courant, no.4410 (9 October 1762)
47. See Bob Harris and Christopher A. Whatley, 'To Solemnize His Majesty's Birthday': New Perspectives on Loyalism in George II's Britain'. History 83, no.271, p.397-419
48. Borsay, 'London Connection', p.31
49. Newcastle Advertiser 2, no.150 (27 August 1791)
50. Newcastle Courant, no.4951 (10 August 1771). Hannah Barker comments upon the two-way traffic in newspapers between the capital and provincial towns, the importation of papers to London forming a 'small but by no means insignificant proportion of the total number of newspapers sent by post' (Newspapers. Politics and Public Opinion, p.128)
51. Letter from John Brand to Ralph Beilby. Northumberland House, 5 April 1784 (repr. Newcastle Magazine, 1824, p.2)
52. Bob Harris, 'England's Provincial Newspapers and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746', History 80. no.258. p.5-21
53. Newcastle Courant, no.2 (4 August 1711)
54. Newcastle Courant, no.334 (18 September 1731). Henry Bourne's History of Newcastle upon Tyne was eventually published posthumously by the author's children in 1736
55. Newcastle Courant, no.3007 (3-10 August 1751)
56. Newcastle Courant, no.3011 (31 August-7 September 1751)
57. see William Weber. The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England. A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology (Oxford 1992), P.187. Avison's Essay on Musical Expression (1752) also brought him considerable fame in London, although the composer preferred to live in Newcastle. The second edition (1753) contained an epistolary 'dialogue' between the author and 'his Friend in London'
58. Newcastle Courant, no.3014 (21-28 September 1751)
59. Letter to the Monthly Magazine from 'V.F.' [William Turner], dated Newcastle. 12 March 1801
60. Newcastle Courant, no.5991 (6 August 1791 )
61. For the promotion of Handel's music by the Church in the eighteenth century, see Jeremy Gregory. 'Anglicanism and the Arts: Religion, Culture and Politics in the Eighteenth Century', in Black and Gregory, Culture. Politics and Society. p.100-101
62. MARA (born Schmeling), Gertrud Elisabeth (b. Cassel. 23 Feb. 1749; d. Reval, 20 Jan. 1833)' (Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Eric Blom, 5th edn. London 1954, p.557-58).'
63. Stanley Sadie, 'Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century England'. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 85 (1958), p.19
64. Joyce Ellis comments that Newcastle was of sufficient size and wealth in the eighteenth century to generate a market for 'leisure and luxury' ('A Dynamic Society', p.196)
65. Newcastle Courant, no.5994 [27 August 1791)
66. See Weber. Rise of the Musical Classics, ch.8. 'The 1784 Handel Commemoration as Political Ritual', p.223-42
67. Jonathan Barry, 'Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort', in The Middling Sort of People. Culture. Society and Politics in England. 1550-1800, ed. J. Barry and C. Brooks (London 1994), p.87
68. Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character. 1650-1850 (Oxford 2000), P-293
69. Langford, Englishness Identified, p.293