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John Gallagher: Early Modern News, 19 February 2026

Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe 
by Rachel Midura.
Cornell, 316 pp., £23.99, March 2025, 978 1 5017 7992 3
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The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe 
by Joad RaymondWren.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £40, July 2025, 978 0 241 18853 8
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... of early modern European postal systems exalts the role of the postmasters and postmistresses, Joad RaymondWren’s The Great Exchange presents European news culture as an unplanned miracle – ‘a vast, invisible system not conceived or constructed by any individual or entity’. News took many forms. It could be ...

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