Politics, Power and the Printed Word in the Reign of James I

• This AHRC-funded project aims to investigate the King's Printing House which, though little studied, was nevertheless one of the central institutions of Jacobean political and cultural life.
• The project is multidisciplinary: it will bring together the analytical-bibliographical, archival, business-historical, and other lines of inquiry.
• Archival researches will lie at the heart of the project. We have already identified and transcribed over a hundred documents bearing on the operations of the King's Printing House. Only a few of these documents have ever been studied and, taken as a whole, the evidence of this archive promises to transform our understanding of the institution, and so alter our understanding of the early-modern book trade in London as a whole.

Director: Professor Graham Rees FBA, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS: g.c.rees@qmul.ac.uk

Research Fellow: Dr Maria Wakely, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS: m.e.wakely@qmul.ac.uk
mariawakely@hotmail.com