This article first appeared in the Transactions of The Hunter Archaeological Society Vol 10 p173 and is reproduced by kind permission of the Society.
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JAMES MONTGOMERY AND THE `SHEFFIELD IRIS', 1792-1825:
A STUDY IN THE WEAKNESS OF PROVINCIAL RADICALISM
By J. WIGLEY
Since the publication in the early 1960's of several studies of English newspaper history there has begun a proce