Mark Brayshay
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Mark Brayshay draws on his recent archival research to present this upbeat view of how news travelled in Early Modern Europe.
Published August 31 1992
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The flood of emigrants bidding their 'Last farewell to England' in the early nineteenth century was not as the result of an organised governmental policy of colonial development, argues Mark Brayshaw, but of haphazard individual effort.
Published July 31 1982
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