Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. This book traces utopian i...

News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. N...

By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication wa...

The first weekly English newsbooks appeared in November 1641, on the eve of the civil war. Though...

Over the past decade, newspaper history has taken a cultural turn: a familiar political bibliogra...

By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication wa...

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the ...

In his 'Second Defence of the English People (1654)', reflecting on his career as a prose writer,...

Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes ...

From the early sixteenth century through to the later seventeenth, governments, institutions, and...

The first newspapers, or `newsbooks', appeared in 1641, although the reasons for their appearance...

This history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms. Cen...

'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book'Noel Malcolm...

John Milton's Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregn...