Gazetteer, 1735 - 1797

Professor Robert L. Haig is a member of the Depart­ment of English at the University of Illinois. He has contributed articles and reviews to various learned periodicals in England and America.

“In giving us this well-documented study of the fluctuating fortunes of an eighteenth-century newspaper Dr. Robert Haig has added greatly to our knowledge of early journalism, and has brought much new evidence to bear on the problem of how a newspaper was run 200years ago… Dr. Haig has an interesting story to tell, and he has told it with intelligence, and with the authority that comes from having thoroughly assimilated his facts and pondered their significance.”—Times Literary Supplement