Glaisyer, Natasha orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-3325 (2017) 'The Most Universal Intelligencers':The Circulation of the London Gazette in the 1690s. Media History. pp. 256-280. ISSN 1469-9729
Abstract
This article examines for the first time the accounts for the newspaper the London Gazette from May 1695 to February 1697. These accounts show that the Gazette’s circulation in this period was spectacular. I argue that this does not simply represent the triumph of print; the Gazette was produced and consumed within the wider context of the exchange and evaluation of manuscript and oral news. Moreover, the Gazette does not easily fit the categories employed in some current scholarly debates about seventeenth-century print culture. It was read as much for its foreign political news as for its domestic announcements, it had an afterlife as a journal of record and although profitable in this period it was not simply a commercial enterprise. Furthermore, it had various companion publications: a French translation and various occasional sheets. In many and diverse ways the London Gazette was ‘the most universal Intelligencers’.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | London Gazette,Seventeenth century,circulation,newspapers,print culture,reading practices |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2018 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2017.1309971 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13688804.2017.1309971 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135060 |
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