22 January 2025: talk at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution … please come! https://www.brlsi.org/whatson/the-birth-of-news-communication-credibility-community-in-early-modern-europe/
1 October, podcast: Joad Raymond Wren with Ellie Cawthorne, ‘Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe’, History Extra.
9 September, review by Peter Marshall in History Today.
1 September, review by Andrew Pettegree in BBC History Magazine, ‘Information Superhighways’.
2 August, review by Minoo Dinshaw in The Spectator, ‘The merchant as global reporter‘. Lovely picture!
14 July, review by Noel Malcolm in the TLS, ‘The news that was fit to print‘.
10 July, publication of The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Allen Lane / Penguin.
7 July, ‘The Speed of Early Modern News’, in History Today.
3 July, publication by Oxford University Press of The Complete Works of John Milton, vol. 7: The Latin Defences. Translated by Jason Harris, John K. Hale, and J. Donald Cullington; The Oxford edition’s general editors are Thomas N. Corns and Gordon Campbell. This is my last academic book.
2024
‘Walking the streets of London in the 1660s‘: Unseen Histories piece reflecting on maps and writing historical fiction
All the Colours You Cannot Name, published by Seren Books on 18 March. You can buy it directly from Seren, from Amazon, or from your local bookshop.
The Unattached, Requiem for Dead Dogs, released by Gare du Nord records on 16 February.
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