'Fixed like a ballad on the wall': Printed lobbying and public persuasion in the Seventeenth Century

CREMS Seminar

Jason Peacey is a Senior Lecturer in History at UCL.  His research focuses on the politics and political culture of early modern Britain, and he is particularly interested in the relationship between print culture and political life: in the censorship and exploitation of the press by the political elite, and the ways in which contemporaries experienced the early modern 'information revolution'. He is currently completing a book which will assess how members of the public reacted to propaganda and newspapers as readers and consumers, and appropriated print in order to participate in national political life. Jason is also developing a new project relating to the political culture of print and diplomacy in seventeenth century Europe, which will explore the possibilities for books and newspapers to traverse national borders, and the constraints placed upon such flows of print, not least through diplomatic means. He is also one of the editors of a Leverhulme funded project to produce a new edition of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

Jason serves on the editorial boards of History Compass, Media History, and Parliamentary History, for the latter of which he also serves as a book reviews editor, and is one of the editors of a monograph series for Pickering and Chatto, entitled 'Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period'.

Recent Publications include:

'Radicalism relocated: royalist pamphleteering in the late 1640s', in A Hessayon and D. Finnegan, eds, Varieties of Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century English Radicalism in Context (2011)

'Pamphlets', in J. Raymond, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture to 1660 (2011)

'The good old cause for which I suffer: the life of a regicide in exile', in P. Major and L. Jardine, eds. Literature of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath (2010)

'Perceptions of Parliament: factions and the public' in J. Adamson, ed., The Civil Wars: Rebellion and Revolution in the Kingdom of Charles I (2009)

'"Fit for public services": the upbringing of Richard Cromwell', in P. Little, ed. Oliver Cromwell (2009)

Refreshments available 15 minutes before the start.