| Description | Manuscript notes with typescript index pages of historical research undertaken as part of Virginia Berridge's PhD thesis (awarded 1976), ''Popular journalism and working class attitudes: a study of Reynolds' Newspaper, Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, and the Weekly Times 1854 -1886.' for the University of London. Sources include 19th century contemporary authors such as Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Frederick Engels; contemporary newspapers and periodicals and historians including Eric Hobsbawn, E P Thompson and Christopher Hill. |