Acknowledgements
Chapter 1, ‘Words, Words, Words: Education, Literacy and Print’, is reprinted from A Social History of England, 1500–1750, ed. Keith Wrightson (Cambridge, 2017), 129–51 and published with permission of Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2, ‘Ballads, Libels and Popular Ridicule in Jacobean England’, is reprinted from Past and Present, 145 (1994), 47–83 and published with permission of Oxford University Press. Chapter 3, ‘Rumour, News and Popular Political Opinion in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England’, is reprinted from Historical Journal, 40 (1997), 597–620 and published with permission of Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4, ‘Remembering the Past in Early Modern England: Oral and Written Tradition’, is reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 9 (1999), 233–56 and published with permission of Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 5, ‘Printed Questionnaires, Research Networks, and the Discovery of the British Isles, 1650–1800’, is reprinted from Historical Journal, 53 (2010), 593–621 and published with permission of Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6, ‘Vernacular Culture and Popular Customs in Early Modern England: Evidence from Thomas Machell’s Westmorland’, is reprinted from Cultural and Social History, 9 (2012), 329–47 and published with permission of Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. Chapter 7, ‘Sir William Petty, Ireland, and the Making of a Political Economist, 1653–1687’, is reprinted from Economic History Review, 62 (2009), 388–404 and published with permission of Blackwell Publishing. Chapter 8, ‘Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England’, is reprinted from Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England, ed. Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard and John Walter (Woodbridge, 2013), 165–87 and published with permission of Boydell & Brewer.
Chapter 9, ‘Cheap Political Print and its Audience in Later Seventeenth-Century London: The Case of Narcissus Luttrell’s “Popish Plot” Collections’, is reprinted from Scripta Volant, Verba Manent: Schriftkulturen in Europa zwischen 1500 und 1900, ed. Alfred Messerli and Roger Chartier (Basel, 2007), 227–42 and published with permission of Schwabe. Chapter 10, ‘Jockey and Jenny: English Broadside Ballads and the Invention of Scottishness’, is reprinted from Huntington Library Quarterly, 79 (2016), 201–20 and published with permission of Pennsylvania University Press. Chapter 11, ‘The Emergence of the Scottish Broadside Ballad in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries’, is reprinted from Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 31 (2011), 169–194 and published with permission of Edinburgh University Press. Chapter 12, ‘“Little Story Books” and “Small Pamphlets” in Edinburgh, 1680–1760: The Making of the Scottish Chapbook’, is reprinted from Scottish Historical Review, 92 (2013), 207–30 and published with permission of Edinburgh University Press.
Texts and footnotes have been reformatted in order to conform to a consistent style throughout this volume. Minor corrections have been made.
I wish to thank the series editors, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, for their invitation to reprint these essays in ‘Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World’. I am grateful to the team at Brill – Arjan van Dijk, Yael Isaacs, Ivo Romein and Peter Buschman – for their expertise and efficiency.