Before reading this, I'd have said that 'Grub Street' and the start of the British Press was in the 8th Century, with the sort of rags and scurrilous rumours associated with John Wilkes. Ruth Herman explains that independent news, opinions, adverts and other elements started to emerge much earlier than that, and faced many challenges, not least from a tyrannical government that wanted to control the message and information. She seems to have had a whale of a time poring over old newssheets and extracting stories as illustrations
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