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

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

Previously published as a special issue of the journal Media History, this book uses cross-cultur...

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

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

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

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