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Professor Brian McGing, head of the school of Histories & Humanities, introduces the American History Lecture, 28/3/11
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Alumni Event
Tabloid Values: on the trail of the world’s first news hound (PDF, 401kb)
December 3, 2012 6:00 PM
Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, TCD
The Department of History invites alumni to a reception followed by The Centre for Early Modern History Inaugural Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews on: ‘Tabloid Values: On the Trail of the World’s First News Hound’ on Monday 3 December 2012.
The reception will take place on Monday 3rd December at 6pm in the Trinity Long Room Hub. The group will then move across to the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin for the lecture at 7pm.
The people of Early Modern Europe had a voracious appetite for news, but in an era of slow and uncertain communication, assessing the reliability of rumour, reports and despatches was by no means easy. This lecture explores the contribution to the building of a commercial news market of the world’s first news hound, Abraham Verhoeven, who helped shape our concept of how news should be reported and presented. Speaker Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the AHRC’s Universal Short Title Catalogue Project.
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