The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren #literature RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust

RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee

marks fifty years since first publication in 1975

while the other is profoundly unsettling

The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film

followed by a high-pitched wailing scream

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren #literature RAF Veteran and Prince's TrustAn epic history of the birth of news in Europe. News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel. This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in modern times. It begins in Renaissance Italy, with the envoys and merchants who drew in and disseminated news across