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Mercurius Britanicus
If you are interested in early modern book history or the civil war period, then you will probably be interested to know that Joyce Macadam’s 2005 thesis on Mercurius Britanicus, one of the earl… more →
Mercurius Politicus
Mercurius Britanicus
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Nick wrote 1 week ago: If you are interested in early modern book history or the civil war period, then you will probably b … more →
Eastern Association
Nick wrote 1 month ago: The Eastern Association is a new blog which tells the story of the early stages of the civil war thr … more →
Walker's Office of Entries
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Nick wrote 2 months ago: One of the subjects of my dissertation is Henry Walker – an ironmonger turned preacher and pam … more →
Out of the loop?
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Nick wrote 4 months ago: When I first started working in government, there was an e-mail forward that used to do the rounds e … more →
Wordled lonely as a cloud
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Nick wrote 4 months ago: A word cloud of the first draft of my dissertation (courtesy of Wordle). … more →
In compasse like unto ordinary Pewter Dishes
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Nick wrote 4 months ago: A close encounter – of the third kind, or of the angelic kind? – from 1651, noted in the … more →
News networks
Nick wrote 5 months ago: A snippet on how far newsbooks were distributed in the late 1640s: Coventry December 15. The last Po … more →
Mr Barrington's gelding
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Nick wrote 5 months ago: I’m in the midst of writing up my dissertation, hence the lack of posts in recent weeks. Most … more →
The great game?
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Nick wrote 8 months ago: ‘Work?’ he said to me once, astonished, when I referred to our classroom activities as s … more →
Killing Noe Murder
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Nick wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been reading Edward Sexby’s Killing Noe Murder for class this week, and it got me t … more →
Things noted
Nick wrote 1 year ago: Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper. An online version of this exhi … more →
London Gazette
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Nick wrote 1 year ago: The London Gazette claims to be not only the oldest surviving British newspaper, but also the newspa … more →
J.B. Williams
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Nick wrote 1 year ago: A History of English Journalism to the foundation of the Gazette (1908), by J.B. Williams, is now av … more →
Digital Storytelling Track
Seth Putnam wrote 1 year ago: We are storytellers, plain and simple. But one of the major hurdles facing journalism today is that … more →
From our Dutch correspondent
Nick wrote 1 year ago: Tactics for gathering foreign news in 1650: from the Council of State’s correspondent in Breda … more →
