From Grub Street to Fleet Street: The Development of the Early English Newspaper

[@GrubStLodger]

I really enjoyed this lecture, it is a brilliant overview. I also really enjoyed his book. My favourite part of it being the parts about the Grub Street Journal, which I have always loved since I picked up a second hand copy of Hillhouse's book on it.

[@MoerreNoseshine]

This is an unexpectedly entertaining and quite humorous lecture, which I did not expect given that I watched quite a lot of the previously available videos (not saying they are bad, I just did not find much of the proverbial British humour). I also did not expect to be willing to watch this video to the end because I was not all that interested in the subject. However, I was very pleasantly surprised and watched it eagerly to the very end.

[@brendankeane5725]

Peck: the father of English journalism. Born in Civil War period, skirmishes with reader urged to take sides.

[@brendankeane5725]

Venetian gazeta de la novità ‘a halfpennyworth of news’ (because the news-sheet sold for a gazeta, a Venetian coin of small value).

[@brendankeane5725]

Tory: robber pirates. Wigs: gold capitalists. ??