Hove The Postcard Collection

Takes the reader on an evocative journey into Hove’s past through a selection of beautiful old postcards.

Explore the history of Manchester through this collection of charming vintage postcards.

A fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.

Uses Worthing as a case study and looks at the introduction and development of picture postcard collecting

Douglas D'Enno explores the history of Sussex's railway stations.

Broome County offers an exceptional perspective on the city, towns, villages, and hamlets nestled in the river valleys of a picturesque New York county. Located just above the Pennsylvania border in south-central New York State, Broome County has a diverse and unique heritage beginning with legends of the Iroquois and continuing today with hightech corporations--making it, in essence, the history of America.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication. In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies in a way impossible in the decades since, until the advent of the digital revolution. This book offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the Edwardian picture postcard emerged and became a craze. It also expands the field of Literacy Studies by illustrating the combined use of posthuman, multimodal, historic and linguistic methodologies to conduct an in-depth analysis of the communicative, sociolinguistic and relational functions of the postcard. Particular attention is paid to how study of the picture postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population, such as working-class women. The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom was one of extreme inequalities and rapid social change, and picture postcards embodied the dynamism of the times. Grounded in an analysis of a unique, open access, digitized collection of 3,000 picture postcards, this monograph will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, history of communications and UK social history.