Newspaper Revolutionary: WT Stead Centenary Conference
Starts:
Apr 16, 2012 09:30 AM
Finishes:
Apr 17, 2012 06:00 PM
Location:
British Library, Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
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Conference to explore influence of the Victorian, WT Stead, on the modern tabloid.
Event description
Birkbeck professors, Roger Luckhurst and Laurel Brake, will join over 40 speakers at this centenary conference looking at the influence of William Stead, one of the inventors of the modern tabloid. His expose of child prostitution raised the age of consent to 16, yet got him thrown in jail. This conference will examine Stead’s influence on the last century of journalism, and look at how digital technology will shape the next.
For all booking information please refer to April events at the British Library.
