Acknowledgements
This collection of essays emerges from an AHRC Leadership Fellowship, Business News in the Atlantic World, 1620–1763, held by Dr Siobhan Talbott from 2018–2022 (reference AH/P009034/1). Dr Sophie H. Jones was the project’s Postdoctoral Research Associate. A symposium was held at Keele University in September 2019 which brought together scholars from a number of disciplines interested in the categorisation, creation, and dissemination of ‘business news’ in the early modern Atlantic world. This volume, which arises from contributions to this event in addition to commissioned chapters, offers perspectives on the ways in which information was produced and used by business agents in the early modern Atlantic world. The editors would like to thank all of the speakers at the symposium (including those not represented here) for their contributions to that event. We are particularly grateful to the AHRC and to Keele University for funding and hosting the symposium, and Siobhan is indebted to Sophie for her organisation of the event, as well as for her work in managing the administration of this collection. We are grateful to Professor Andrew Pettegree and to the team at Brill for their encouragement and assistance in developing this volume for publication, and would like to thank all archives and repositories who granted permission to use their images. Finally, we thank all of our contributors for their hard work in meeting our deadlines, in responding to our many queries, and for helping us both to develop our own understandings of ‘business news’.