• Suggested Reading

• E.Hellmuth, ‘The palladium of all other English liberties: reflections on the liberty of the press in England during the 1760s and 17702’ in Hellmuth (ed.), The Transformation of Political Culture
• R. Kropf, ‘Libel and Satire in the Eighteenth Century’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 1975
• Tedra Osell, ‘Tatling women in the public sphere’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 2005
• R. Alston, ‘The British Book Trade, 1701 to 1800’, Publishing History, 1984
• Brian Cowan, ‘Mr Spectator and the coffeehouse public sphere’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 2004
• P.D.G. Thomas, ‘The Beginning of Parliamentary Reporting in the Newspapers, 1768-1774’, English Historical Review, 1959
  R.B. Walker, ‘The Newspaper press in the reign of William III’, Historical Journal, 1974
  
• Burney Collection of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Newspapers
  
• British Periodicals Collection
  
• Eighteenth-Century Journals
  

Questions

• How was politics reported in the eighteenth century? (research your own topics in the newspapers and periodicals)
  
• How inclusive was the press?
  
• Who was the audience for the printed medium?
  
• How censored were the press?