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The papers in this volume emerge from a conference which brought together scholars of journalism history and experts in digital newspaper archives. It was the first event organised as part of the AHRC Research Network,‘Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833–1988’. The purpose of the conference, held at the University of Sheffield in January 2011, was to examine a range of scholarship on historical newspapers that was coming out of the expansion in the use of digital newspaper archives. 1 As the conference organiser Martin Conboy notes, there is a ‘refreshing’abundance of work which examines both British and American journalism in the 19th and 20th centuries which has ‘sketched out the mutual influences’ therein. 2 The papers in this volume then draw on these themes as well as signal developments and opportunities in the production, use and development of …