Connecting centre and locality: Political communication in early modern England

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This collection explores the dynamics of local/national political culture in seventeenth-century Britain, with particular reference to political communication. It examines the degree to which connections were forged between politics in London, Whitehall and Westminster, politics in the localities and the patterns and processes that can be recovered. The goal is to create a dialogue between two prominent strands in recent historiography and between the work of social and political historians of the early modern period. Chapters by leading historians of Stuart England examine how the state worked to communicate with its people and how local communities, often far from the metropole, opened their own lines of communication with the centre. Front Matter Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Abbreviations and conventions Introduction ‘A dog, a butcher, and a puritan’: the politics of Lent in early modern England The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625–27 Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich ‘Written according to my usual way’: political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts: central initiatives and local agency in the English civil war Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the coming of the regicide in the south-west Sovereignty by the book: English corporations, Atlantic plantations and literate order, 1557–1650 Local expertise in hostile territory: state building in Cromwellian Ireland News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660–71 The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion Index