Chapter Seventeen A LIBERAL NATION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Chapter One THE SCOTTISH PRESS, 1850–1900 1
5. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE
6. Chapter Two GLASGOW DAILIES 25
7. Chapter Three GLASGOW’S WEEKLY PAPERS 52
8. Chapter Four EDINBURGH: THE 1850s AND 1860s 67
9. Chapter Five EDINBURGH’S SCOTSMAN AND ITS CHALLENGERS 86
10. Chapter Six DUNDEE 99
11. Chapter Seven ABERDEEN 111
12. Chapter Eight THE NORTH-EAST COUNTIES 123
13. Chapter Nine PERTHSHIRE, KINROSS-SHIRE AND ANGUS 144
14. Chapter Ten LOTHIANS, FIFE AND STIRLINGSHIRE 160
15. Chapter Eleven LANARKSHIRE AND CLYDESIDE 187
16. Chapter Twelve AYRSHIRE, DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY AND THE BORDERS 210
17. Chapter Thirteen HIGHLANDS AND NORTHERN ISLANDS 233
18. MAKING A NEWSPAPER
19. Chapter Fourteen PROPRIETORS, EDITORS AND JOURNALISTS 259
20. Chapter Fifteen FILLING THE PAGES 283
21. Chapter Sixteen GETTING IT OUT THERE 312
22. MAKING THE NEWS
23. Chapter Seventeen A LIBERAL NATION 327
24. Chapter Eighteen NOT IRELAND 354
25. Chapter Nineteen A PROTESTANT PEOPLE 380
26. Chapter Twenty THE LURE OF EMPIRE 401
27. Chapter Twenty-One SCOTTISH IDENTITY 426
28. TWENTIETH CENTURY
29. Chapter Twenty-Two THE COMPLEXITIES OF OWNERSHIP 451
30. Chapter Twenty-Three COPING WITH THE NEW 474
31. Chapter Twenty-Four CONCLUSION 498
32. BIBLIOGRAPHY 504
33. GENERAL INDEX 518
34. INDEX OF PEOPLE 528