Start Date(s)

• 1892 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1894 (Shattock)

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Feilden, McAllan & Co.

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Deals with Unionism, eight-hour day, boy labour, systemic overtime, etc." (Harrison p. 435)
• “Such questions as the Eight-Hour Day, Composing Machines, Federation, Piece-’stab, Boy Labour, Systematic Overtime, Provident Benefit, Sanitation, etc. are of increasing interest. In providing a common platform for the discussion of these and kindred subjects, The Printing News will serve a useful purpose” (“Introductory” vol. 1, no. 1, Aug. 1892, p. 1)

Notes

• "'Officially recognised by the London Society of Compositors, and the Printers’ Labourers’ Union . . . its one aim will be to serve the interests of the working fraternity, and its policy will be moulded on their needs and aspirations'" (Harrison p. 435)
• The journal’s “one aim will be to serve the interests of the working fraternity, and its policy will be moulded on their needs and aspirations” (“Introductory” vol. 1, no. 1, Aug. 1892, p. 1)
• Publisher's address: 52 Gray's Inn Rd. (Mitchell's 1895, p. 229)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Issues

• Printing News 1.1 (Aug. 1892)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Harrison et al. p. 435
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 229
• Shattock p. 52
• St. Bride Catalogue (print) p. 740
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 605
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts. Governors, 1919. Google Books.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.