{"id":45430,"date":"2021-02-19T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=45430"},"modified":"2021-02-19T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:56:07","slug":"british-book-news-1940-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/british-book-news-1940-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"British Book News, 1940-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I noted here that the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pub_publishers-weekly?sort=-date\">Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/em> is online at Archive.org for 1872-2016. Now comes a British equivalent, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pub_british-book-news?sort=-date\">British Book News<\/a><\/em> in a run from 1940-1993. The upload appears not to be complete yet, though probably will be in a few days. Useful for tracking down exact publication dates, in terms of possible influences of writers on other writers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bookn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bookn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"741\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cover shows &#8220;Tomb of Thomas Sayers&#8221; in Highgate Cemetery, picture made by Fay Godwin circa 1980. &#8220;Sayers was a famous bare-knuckle fighter and the first to be declared \u2018World Heavyweight Champion\u2019. The giant dog is his pet, Lion&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I noted here that the Publishers Weekly is online at Archive.org for 1872-2016. Now comes a British &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/british-book-news-1940-1993\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}