The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy

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• Natashia Glaisyer, University of York
• Thursday 02 May 2024, 17:00-19:00
• History Faculty Room 11.

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From 1665 the newspaper the London Gazette was published twice a week from the offices of the Secretaries of State. It was “published by authority” and conveyed foreign news, government notices and privately placed advertisements. In this paper I use surviving fragmentary accounts to explore who profited from the sale of the newspaper from the hawkers on the streets of London to the postmasters who received it as payments for information. I argue that the London Gazette needs to be understood as part of late seventeenth-century commercial print culture as well as part of state-organised public and private information networks.

This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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