My research focuses on the politics and political culture of early modern Britain, and I am particularly interested in the relationship between print culture and the practices of political life. I am interested, therefore, in the censorship and exploitation of the press by the political elite, in the mechanisms that were devised for the production and deployment of propaganda, and in the issue of ‘news management’ following the emergence of early newspapers. I am also interested in enhancing our understanding of the ways in which contemporaries experienced the early modern ‘information revolution’. This involves assessing how members of the public from all walks of life reacted to propaganda and newspapers as readers and consumers, and how they appropriated a variety of print genres in order to participate in national political life. Beyond this, I am also interested in exploring the European dimension print culture and public opinion in the early modern period, and in the impact of the ways in which texts and ideas – as well as news – could traverse political boundaries. This means examining the emergence of what might be called a European public sphere, new ways of mobilising opinion beyond national borders, and a growing sense among political elites of the need to manipulate news and political debate on a much larger scale, and in different geographical locations, not least through diplomatic channels.