The invention of the newspaper
Subtitle: English newsbooks, 1641-1649.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: English newspapers -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Description: First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper.
Notes: A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Magdalen College, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-365) and index.