This article first appeared in the Transactions of The Hunter Archaeological Society Vol 10 p173 and is reproduced by kind permission of the Society. (Notes in [ ] appear at the end). 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