Freedom of Speech, 1500–1850

Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History at Ohio University Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College LondonAlex W. Barber is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at Durham University

• 1 Freedom of speech in England and the Anglophone world, 1500–1850 – Jason Peacey, Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber2 Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England – Joanne Paul3 Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England – Karl Gunther4 ‘Free speech’ in Elizabethan and early Stuart England – Peter Lake5 The origins of the concept of freedom of the press – David Como6 Swift and free speech – David Womersley7 Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France – Ann Thomson8 ‘The warr… against heaven by blasphemors and infidels’: prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England – Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber9 David Hume and ‘Of the Liberty of the Press’ (1741) in its original contexts – Max Skjönsberg10 The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, 1787–8 – Patrick Peel11 Before – and beyond – On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech – Greg Conti12 Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mill’s theory of the public – Christopher BarkerIndex

'[...] This is a hugely ambitious book that takes studies of freedom of speech forward in new and refreshing directions and is undoubtedly an addition to the literature worthy of close examination.'Parliaments, Estates & Representation 'This well-designed collection of original essays by first-rate scholars will appeal to anyone interested in the important and controversial history of free speech.'Diego Lucci, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'Each of these authors raises powerful claims about the historical origins of one of the central elements of modern political thought and practice. Ingram, Peacey, and Barber have done us all a service by bringing them together.'Andrew R. Murphy, Journal of British Studies