The updating of historic catalogues of Catalan press

Abstract

This article introduces the research entitled General Historic Catalogue of Catalan Press, 1. The Emergence of Newspapers, 1641, 1810-1898 carried out with support from the 2008-2010 research programme of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Institute for Catalan Studies). This is the first part of the project by the Journalism Research Group at Pompeu Fabra University (GRP -UP F). In its upcoming research the group aims to cover the period up to 1939. The purpose is to review and update the catalogues produced during the first third of the 20th century and study the political, social and cultural conditions present during the birth and evolution of the Catalan language press. The result of this first part is the classification of a total of 475 newspapers, 337 of which were published in Catalonia, 99 in Valencia, 26 in the Balearic Islands and 13 outside the linguistic domain. These newspapers relate to a total of 67 villages, 44 in Catalonia, 14 in Valencia, three in the Balearic Islands and six outside the linguistic domain. The differences in the amount of data from the various territories is related to population numbers and also to political and cultural movements related to the Catalan literary revivalist movement, Renaixença, and the historical development of the Spanish general press network in each area.

Keywords: catalogue, history, newspapers, Catalan, language, territories.