The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree Page B

the Library Company of Philadelphia for access to early newspapers; the Museum Plantin Moretus in Antwerp, the rare-book room of Amsterdam University Library and the Royal Library in Brussels for access to rare seventeenth-century serials and pamphlets. I was able to read Mazarinades in the Arsenal Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the John Rylands Library in Manchester and the Taylor Institute in Oxford. The Library of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin played host to a period of study of Reformation pamphlet literature, and I was able to explore a wonderful collection of official broadsheets in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. The British Library played an essential part in this project, as it does for most British academic writers. At a late stage in my research I was able to work my way through the collection of the great scholar of early news-papers, Folke Dahl, now in Princeton University Library. I am especially grateful to the staff of the rare-book room for allowing me access to these papers, and to make free with my digital camera. I would also like to pay tribute to two parallel research projects: the Vienna project investigating the Fuggerzeitungen , and Joad Raymond's News Networks in Early Modern Europe, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. I thank Joad and his project manager Noah Moxham for making me welcome in the circle of scholars gathered by this initiative. Some of this work was tried out on audiences in Antwerp, Dublin, New York, Philadelphia and London, and I thank my hosts in all of those places. Flavia Bruni, Jacqueline Rose, Grant Tapsell and Peter Truesdale all very kindly read large chunks of the text, and suggested corrections, changes and further reading. I am extremely grateful to them all. Lucas Kriner kindly drew the maps. As ever, colleagues in the St Andrews Book History group have been a constant source of stimulating discoveries and sound advice, and I am grateful too to the project's technical managers, Graeme Kemp and before him Philip John, for helping me stay afloat in an age of testing media transformation. My co-director in the Book project group, Malcolm Walsby, has been for a decade my closest intellectual collaborator, and I am grateful for his help and advice as this project took shape. At Yale University Press Heather McCallum was a strong and imaginative supporter of this project from its inception, and in its final stages it has benefited greatly from the professionalism and elegance of the copy-editor, Richard Mason. My wife Jane was the first person to read a complete text of this book; we wandered Vindolanda together; she has been a constant source of probing, insightful guidance in this and everything else. Jane, Megan and Sophie make it all worthwhile.
    Andrew Pettegree
    St Andrews, April 2013