Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage135en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage149en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume41en_US
dc.contributor.authorRaffe, Alasdair
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T10:32:20Z
dc.date.available2022-12-16T10:32:20Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.date.updated2022-12-15T12:18:04Z
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the creation and consumption of scribal news by the early 18th‐century Scottish Presbyterian minister Robert Wodrow (1679–1734). It argues that Scottish news culture depended on the interaction of printed newspapers, professionally produced newsletters from London, personal letters and oral communication. For Wodrow, at least, personal letters were the most important source. No widely circulated commercial newsletter was produced in Scotland, and personal letters were vital for communicating information about the Scottish parliament, the church courts and the Westminster parliament after the Anglo–Scottish Union. News provided as a gift, rather than a commodity, served social functions. The article explores two moments at which Wodrow paid particular attention to parliamentary news: the ratification of the Union in 1706–7, and the passage of the Episcopalian Toleration, Patronage and Yule Vacation Acts in 1712.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1750-0206.12611
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2782
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn1750-0206en_US
dc.relation.journalParliamentary Historyen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:070en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:300en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:320en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:941en_US
dc.subject.fieldmediastudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldhistoryen_US
dc.subject.fieldbritishstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldpoliticalscienceen_US
dc.titleWodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotlanden_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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