Dallas Liddle, "News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885" (Oxford UP, 2026)

British

daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth

century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and

production decade by decade. By mid-century, newspapers had grown from

the folded single sheets of the previous century to large multi-page

broadsheets, so impressive in the quantity of print they held and their

speed of production that one of their nicknames was 'the daily miracle'.

Traditional

news history has overlooked a key fact for understanding this era of

news: that Victorian daily newspapers were high-pressure systems. As

demand for newspapers outpaced their original production capacity,

newspaper organizations began to build complex technical and production