Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution

Jason Peacey is Senior Lecturer in British History at University College London, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous monograph, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda During the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (2004), was proxime accesit for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize.

• Introduction; Part I. Consuming Print: Introduction; 1. The ownership of cheap print; 2. The accessibility of print; 3. Readers, reception and the authority of print; Part II. Following Parliament: Introduction; 4. Analysing parliament and its problems; 5. Access to parliament; 6. Monitoring personalities and performance; Part III. Taking Part: Introduction; 7. Authors, printing and participation; 8. Print and petitioning; 9. Print and lobbying; 10. Printing, mass mobilisation and protesting; 11. Holding representatives to account; Conclusion.

'Peacey makes his argument with a staggering array of sources and helps to evolve new ways of unerstanding the complexities in the interaction between what we used to call 'high' and 'low' politics.' History Today