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  • Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 1

    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ... Read more

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  • Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4

    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ... Read more

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  • Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2

    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ... Read more

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  • Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 3

    Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech. ... Read more

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  • The Cato Street Conspiracy

    Plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland

    On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty minutes of setting out to assassinate the British cabinet. Five of the conspirators were subsequently executed and another five were transported for life to Australia.The plotters were a mixture of English, Scots and Irish tradesmen, and one was a black Jamaican. They were ... Read more

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  • The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history. ... Read more

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  • Fear, Exclusion and Revolution

    Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s

    Edited by Jason McElligott ...
    Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history. It charts the rise of British party politics, and the transformation of Puritanism into 'Whiggery' and Dissent. It ... Read more

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