James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive.

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JAMES MUSSELLLecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) (2008).

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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: From Front Page to Home Page From the Margins and For the Margins: Studying the Nineteenth-Century Press Today Bibliographic Codes and Visual Modes: The Role of the Visual on Page and Screen Editions and Archives (with Suzanne Paylor) Newspapers and Periodicals in Class Conclusion: We Have Always Been Users Bibliography