Previously published as a special issue of the journal Media History, this book uses cross-cultural comparisons and new research to survey the development of the news and communication networks between Britain and Europe in early modern history.

Joad Raymond is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, and the author of Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (2003) and The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649 (1996).

Chapter 1 Introduction: networks, communication, practice, Joad Raymond; Chapter 2, Paul Arblaster; Chapter 3, Filippo de Vivo; Chapter 4, Marcus Nevitt; Chapter 5 Spoken Discourse in Early English Newspapers, Nicholas Brownlees; Chapter 6, Jason McElligott; Chapter 7, Nicole Greenspan; Chapter 8, Mark Knights; Chapter 9 Robert Hepburn and the Edinburgh Tatler: a study in an early British periodical, Hamish Mathison;