Voices of Scottish journalists : recollections by 22 veteran Scottish journalists of their life and work
Ian MacDougall (Editor)
Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a ''Hold the front page!'' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People''s History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so m
eBook, English, 2013
John Donald, Edinburgh, 2013