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(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Preface

(Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Introduction

(Jason Peacey) ‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England

(Edward Taylor) ‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81

(Brendan Dooley and Davide Boerio) Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London

(Michael Schaich) (Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III

(Charles Littleton) Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I

(Rachael Scarborough King) ‘Sir Madam’:Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters

(Alasdair Raffe) Wodrow’s News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th-Century Scotland

(Leith Davis) Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising

(Robin Eagles) Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters

(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

(Markman Ellis) Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century

(Kate Loveman) Afterword

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