Destined not to survive: The illustrated newspapers of colonial Australia

Dowling, Peter

doi:10.1080/13688809509357919

Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History

1995

DOI: 10.1080/13688809509357919

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Destined not to survive: The illustrated newspapers of colonial Australia

Peter Dowling

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“…small population, still only 3.8 million at the time of Federation in 1901, meaning that a scale of economy for the labour-intensive illustrated newspapers could only be achieved by monthly issues [1].…”

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Truth versus art in nineteenth‐century graphic journalism: The colonial Australian case

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Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

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This article will demonstrate that digital newspaper archives can be used to shed new light on the historical readership of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. The digital newspaper archive of Australia (Trove) was used to study the distribution and reception of the renowned Illustrated London News (ILN) in the Australian colonies between 1842 and 1872. As a result of this research, this article shows that around 17,000 copies of the magazine reached the Australian colonies by each mail in 1862. This corresponds to 8-11% of the total circulation of the ILN at that time so making it the most widely read British publication in the Australian colonies. By means of a case study into the colonial readership of the ILN, this article will argue that the magazine was an important building block in the formation of the imagined communities both of Britain and its dominions in the period between 1842 and 1872. KEYWORDS historical readership; digital newspaper archives; Illustrated London News; imagined communities; Trove To our colonies this Journal has an interest, which can be claimed by no other. The Australian or the Canadian settled in remote districts, (…), looks forward with more pleasure

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Destined not to survive: The illustrated newspapers of colonial Australia

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Truth versus art in nineteenth‐century graphic journalism: The colonial Australian case

Truth versus art in nineteenth‐century graphic journalism: The colonial Australian case

Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers

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