New book on Media and Mediation
My latest book is a volume that I co-edited with Penelope J. Corfield: Media and Mediation in the Eighteenth Century. It contains seven case studies on how messages, information, and propaganda were conveyed and transformed in the age of hand-press printing. My own chapter focuses on how images of royal power were conveyed, transformed, and…
The Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance from 1766
Much of my research in later years have been about the early Swedish experiences of freedom of the press. Sweden was in fact the first country in the world where freedom of the press was protected in constitutional law. Of course, this was, at times, a less glorious and much more complicated history than one…