I have just returned from the fourth annual conference of the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, which took place on 18 & 19 November 2011 in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
The conference title was 'Writing the Press into History' and speakers from Europe and North America presented papers on their own areas of research. Attendees included press historians, working journalists and editors as well as academics and researchers from many different disciplines. I really enjoyed the conference and benefited enormously from it by hearing of what others are doing in the world of newspapers and by discussing my own research with them.
Well done to the organisers for creating such a unique and successful conference. This is a link to the forum:
http://www.newspapersperiodicals.org/index.html
