Abstract
Abstract The abolition of Stamp Duty in 1855 meant that, for the first time, many people became regular purchasers of a daily newspaper. Chambers’s Journal (1832—1956, with changes of title) was a weekly miscellany run by William and Robert Chambers, long-standing Edinburgh-based proponents of low-cost print media, and this article promotes the benefits of a cheap press. It particularly celebrates the way that the penny daily press increased the extent and speed of the flow of news around the country to forward the ‘national mind’.
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