This volume is the first scholarly treatment of the News of the World from news-rich broadsheet to sensational tabloid. Contributors uncover new facts and discuss a range of topics including Sunday journalism, gender, crime, empire, political cartoons, the mass market, investigative techniques and the Leveson Inquiry.

Introduction1. The Foundation and Early Years of the : 'Capacious Double Sheets'; James Mussell2. Re-branding the : 1856-1890; Laurel Brake and Mark W. Turner3. Re-Branding the : 1891 and After; Laurel Brake and Mark W. Turner4. 'Child Slavery in England': The and Campaigning for Children (1843-1878); Melissa Score5. Imagining the Mass-Market Woman Reader: The , 1843-77; Alexis Easley6. News of the Imperial World: Popular Print Culture, the and India in the Late Nineteenth Century; Chandrika Kaul7. Residual Radicalism as a Popular Commercial Strategy: Beginnings and Endings; Martin Conboy8. Passports to Oblivion: J. M. Staniforth's Political Cartoons for the , 1893-1921; Chris Williams9. 'Woman as Husband': Gender, Sexuality and Humour in the 1910-1950s; Alison Oram10. The Irish Edition - From 'Filthy Scandal Sheet' to 'Old Friend' of the Taoiseach; Kevin Rafter11. 'One in Every Two Households': The in the 1950s; John Stokes12. Bringing Popular Journalism into Disrepute: The the Public and Politics, 1953-2011; Kevin Williams13. 'Gross Interference with the Course of Justice': The and the Moors Murder trial; Adrian Bingham14. Harbingers of the Future: Rupert Murdoch's Takeover of the Organisation; Julian Petley15. The Downfall of the : The Decline of the English Newspaper and the Double-Edged Sword of Technology; James RodgersAfterword: Lessons of the Leveson Inquiry into the British Press; Neil Berry