List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors Introduction: Nicholas Brownlees 1. Business of the Press, 1640-1800: Nicholas Brownlees and David Finkelstein Case Study 1: The Times : David Finkelstein 2. Production and Distribution: Helen S. Williams 3. Legal Contexts: Licensing, Censorship and Censure: Geoff Kemp and Jason McElligott 4. Readers and Readerships: Sophie H. Jones Case Study 2: Readerships in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool: Sophie H. Jones 5.
From News Writers to Journalists: An Emerging Profession?: Martin Conboy Case Study 3: Daniel Defoe: Martin Conboy 6. From Manuscript to Print: The Multimedia News System: Rachael Scarborough King Case Study 4: The Post Boy : Rachael Scarborough King 7. Newsbook to Newspaper: Changing Format, Layout and Illustration in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Periodical News: Yann Ryan Case Study 5: Form, Layout, and the Digitised Newspaper: Irish News in 1649: Yann Ryan 8. The Evolving Language of the Press: Nicholas Brownlees and Birte Bös Case Study 6: The Press and the Standard Accent: Massimo Sturiale 9. News, Debate and the Public Sphere: Pat Rogers Case Study 7: Nathaniel Mist: Pat Rogers 10. Irish Periodical News, 1640-1800: Toby Barnard Case Study 8: Ireland''s First Newspaper: MercuriusHibernicus and the Court of Claims 1663: Colum Kenny Case Study 9: The Early Years of the Freeman''s Journal , 1763-1806: Felix M. Larkin 11. The Scottish Press: Rhona Brown Case Study 10: Reading the News in Scotland: The Jacobite Rising of 1715: Anette Hagan 12.
The Market for the News in Scotland: Stephen W. Brown Case Study 11: Newspaper Access and Distribution beyond the Scottish Capital: The Daily Practicalities: Iain Beavan 13. Scottish Press: News Transmission and Networks between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century: Mark G. Spencer Case Study 12: ''Farewell to the Highlands'': Or, How Broadsides Helped Create Images of the Scottish Diaspora: Marina Dossena 14. Wales and the News, 1640-1800: Sarah Ward Clavier 15. European Exchanges, Networks and Contexts 1640-1800: Brendan Dooley 16. Translation and the Press: Mairi McLaughlin and Nicholas Brownlees Case Study 13: Gazette de Londres : Nicholas Brownlees 17. Women and the Eighteenth-Century Print Trade: Rebecca Shapiro Case Study 14: Anne Fisher and the Print Trade: Rebecca Shapiro 18.
The Medical Press, 1640-1800: Irma Taavitsainen Case Study 15: Knowing the Parts of Woman: How Knowledge about Reproduction and Childbirth is Communicated in the Earliest Medical Press: Richard J. Whitt 19. Commenting and Reflecting on the News: Edward Taylor Case Study 16: John Tutchin and George Ridpath''s Observator (1702-12): Edward Taylor 20. Newspapers and War: Nicole Greenspan Case Study 17: Mercurius Politicus and the Jamaica invasion (1655): Nicole Greenspan 21. Crime and Trial Reporting (1640-1800): Elisabetta Cecconi Case Study 18: Reporting the Assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews (1679): Elisabetta Cecconi 22. Literary and Review Journalism: Hye-Joon Yoon Case Study 19: The Scottish Enlightenment in The Monthly and The Critical : Hye-Joon Yoon 23. Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century: Lena Liapi Case Study 20: ''A Hellish Conspiracy'': news reportage of the 1696 Assassination Plot: Lena Liapi 24.
Religion and the Seventeenth-Century Press: Katie McKeogh and Sarah Ward Clavier Case Study 21: Papistry and the News: Katie McKeogh and Sarah Ward Clavier 25. Runaway Announcements and Narratives of the Enslaved: John W. Cairns 26. The Press in Literature and Drama: Michael Palmer Case Study 22: Ben Jonson 27. Informational Abundance and Material Absence in the Digitised Early Modern Press: The Case for Contextual Digitisation: Paul Gooding Case Study 23: The London Gazette, or printing the news in a pandemic: Paul Gooding Concluding Comments Timeline of Significant Events Bibliography Additional Notes.