![]() My sources for the data constituting the original research corpus were: newspaper directories, which were published annually in the UK as business resources for potential advertisers, and in part as legal and fiscal evidence of a periodical’s existence the British Library catalogue, one of the British statutory repositories for registered periodicals, but which only contains those issues and titles that were deposited (many were either not received or have been lost) and the annual editions for 1914–19 of A & C Black’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (W&AY), a popular annual directory to help writers and artists to identify buyers for their work. Additionally, the war has usually been treated as a phase in the histories of individual titles, whereas my research has examined the war as a catalyst for publication, the reasons why novels, short stories and non-fiction were published in these periodicals, and how the war influenced changes in the formats of the media: books, magazines, pamphlets and journals. This bias from the academy is skewed towards élite and experimental avant garde publications read by comparatively few, and ignoring the opportunity to be attentive to publications read by most of the population. ![]() Its subject is also relatively understudied: much research has been published on the modernist magazines published before, during and after the war, but there has been very little attention paid to the origins of the post-war boom in popular magazine publishing that began in wartime. ![]() The original research project explored new ground in the publishing history and book history of the war, with quantitative research focused on trends and publishing patterns over time rather than the scrutiny of single titles or issues. This findings discussed in this article emerged from my research i on the magazines and other periodicals published in Britain during the First World War, to explore a particular aspect of First World War publishing in Britain: how developing technologies were communicated to the reading public. ![]()
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