{"product_id":"scribal-news-in-politics-and-parliament-1660-1760-isbn-9781119912163","title":"Scribal News in Politics and Parliament, 1660 - 1760","description":"An exploration of scribal news, which played a major part in the topical reporting of political developments in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluates its significance, which has long been overshadowed by the seemingly inevitable rise of print media\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilds on recent research that critiqued assumptions about the superiority of print\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSeeks to explore the relationship between manuscript news and politics in Britain from c. 1660-1760 in more detail and on a broad scale\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Preface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Jason Peacey) ‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Edward Taylor) ‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Brendan Dooley and Davide Boerio) Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Michael Schaich) (Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Charles Littleton) Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Rachael Scarborough King) ‘Sir Madam’:Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Alasdair Raffe) Wodrow’s News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th-Century Scotland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Leith Davis) Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Robin Eagles) Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Ugo Bruschi) The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James’s in the First Half of the 18th Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Markman Ellis) Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Kate Loveman) Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Eagles \u003c\/b\u003eis editor of the \u003ci\u003eHouse of Lords 1660–1832 \u003c\/i\u003esection at the History of Parliament. He was one of the principal contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe History of Parliament: The Lords\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1660\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1715 \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and is now overseeing the next part of the project covering 1715–90. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrancophilia in English Society, 1748\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1815 \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), has published an edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Diaries of John Wilkes,1770\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1797 \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and was co-editor with Coleman Dennehy of \u003ci\u003eHenry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and His World: Restoration Court, Politics and Diplomacy \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Schaich \u003c\/b\u003eis deputy director of the German Historical Institute London and teaches early modern history at the University of Munich. He specialises in 17th- and 18th-century British and German history. Among his most recent publications are two volumes of collected essays: (with Andreas Gestrich), \u003ci\u003eThe Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCulture \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and (with Matthias Pohlig), \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Spanish Succession: New Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). He is currently working on the transmission of information from London to various German courts in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScribal news played a major part in the topical reporting of political developments in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries. Its significance has, however, long been overshadowed by the seemingly inevitable rise of print media. Building on recent research that critiqued assumptions about the superiority of print, this volume seeks to explore the relationship between manuscript news and politics in Britain from c. 1660-1760 in more detail and on a broader scale. At the heart of the volume is the coverage of parliament, as there were few other topics that resurfaced with such regularity and were treated as extensively in newsletters and other handwritten reports as the affairs in the Lords and the Commons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989995438309,"sku":"NP9781119912163","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119912163.jpg?v=1761786147","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/scribal-news-in-politics-and-parliament-1660-1760-isbn-9781119912163","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}