The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press : EHBIP. The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 : Beginnings and Consolidation 1640-1800

## Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and Ireland * Provides an exhaustive history of the British and Irish Press from the outbreak of the British Civil Wars to the eve of the Act of Union, reflected upon in a mixture of core chapters, substantive chapters, and focused case studies * Sets out to capture the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and Ireland * Offers unique and important reassessments of the seventeenth and eighteenth-century British and Irish periodical press within social, cultural, technological, economic, linguistic and historical contexts Consisting of twenty-eight chapters and numerous case studies the volume examines the history of the British and Irish press from its seventeenth-century beginnings up until the end of the eighteenth century. Five core chapters regard the Business of the Press (including advertising), Production and Distribution, Legal Constraints and Opportunities, Readers and Readerships, and the Emerging Identities and Communities of news writers and journalists. Other contributions focus on particular national realities such as those in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The contributions examine features relating to the production, transmission and reception of not just news publications but also the more specialised press such as periodical essays, women’s periodicals, literary and review journalism, medical journals, and the criminal and religious press. As much early modern news was a transnational phenomenon the volume includes studies on European and trans-Atlantic networks as well as the role of translation in news transmission and output. CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES INTRODUCTION Chapter One BUSINESS OF THE PRESS Chapter Two PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION Chapter Three LEGAL CONTEXTS: LICENSING, CENSORSHIP AND CENSURE Chapter Four READERS AND READERSHIPS Chapter Five FROM NEWS WRITERS TO JOURNALISTS: AN EMERGING PROFESSION? Chapter Six FROM MANUSCRIPT TO PRINT: THE MULTIMEDIA NEWS SYSTEM Chapter Seven NEWSBOOK TO NEWSPAPER: CHANGING FORMAT, LAYOUT AND ILLUSTRATION IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICAL NEWS Chapter Eight THE EVOLVING LANGUAGE OF THE PRESS Chapter Nine NEWS, DEBATE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter Ten IRISH PERIODICAL NEWS Chapter Eleven THE SCOTTISH PRESS Chapter Twelve THE MARKET FOR THE NEWS IN SCOTLAND Chapter Thirteen SCOTTISH PRESS: NEWS TRANSMISSION AND NETWORKS BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Chapter Fourteen WALES AND THE NEWS Chapter Fifteen EUROPEAN EXCHANGES, NETWORKS AND CONTEXTS Chapter Sixteen TRANSLATION AND THE PRESS Chapter Seventeen WOMEN AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRINT TRADE Chapter Eighteen THE MEDICAL PRESS Chapter Nineteen COMMENTING AND REFLECTING ON THE NEWS Chapter Twenty NEWSPAPERS AND WAR Chapter Twenty-one CRIME AND TRIAL REPORTING Chapter Twenty-two LITERARY AND REVIEW JOURNALISM Chapter Twenty-three PRESS AND POLITICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Chapter Twenty-four RELIGION AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PRESS Chapter Twenty-five RUNAWAY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NARRATIVES OF THE ENSLAVED Chapter Twenty-six THE PRESS IN LITERATURE AND DRAMA Chapter Twenty-seven INFORMATIONAL ABUNDANCE AND MATERIAL ABSENCE IN THE DIGITISED EARLY MODERN PRESS: THE CASE FOR CONTEXTUAL DIGITISATION CONCLUDING COMMENTS KEY PRESS AND PERIODICAL EVENTS TIMELINE, 1605–1800 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Plate