Abstract
An eminent historian with several important books to his credit, Campbell complains that newspapers are not what they used to be in terms of historical reference. He writes: "The press has become so much a part of the entertainment industry that it will be of less and less use to historians - to political historians at any rate. For historians of fashion and pop culture, for the biographers of David Beckham and Madonna, it may still be a goldmine, but the political historian researching this decade will find more about David Blunkett's love life and George Galloway's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother than serious reporting of Westminster and Whitehall. No doubt it will be said that the hard information - the speeches, the press releases, the text of documents - is all available online, but it's scattered between dozens of different websites and the sheer volume of material is more overwhelming than ever."
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