This text recreates London's popular culture from the close of the Victorian era to the end of World War I. It charts the interaction between stage, song, sport and cinema, and the creation of the 'celebrity'.
International specialists explore magazines and newspapers from a sociocultural perspective allowing us to understand the relation between its audience and these much beloved friends from the late seventeenth to the twenty first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyse periodicals.
