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I see text emoji's in this ornament from an eighteenth century news print. #textemoji #newshistory

Back to our messenger and his context. And here, #bookhistory meets #newshistory. Stay with me. This detail is rich.

This #earlymodern courier carrying a paper letter, printed as an emblem around 1700 in Nuremberg, Germany, sends you a message too: Today, send a message to a friend. Because a letter is a sign of friendship (in Latin: a Signum Amicitae). #skystorians #NewsHistory

Run, early modern postal horse with your messenger sitting on top blowing the post horn, run. @histodons

You see a video of the identical printed image used in the 1670s on the title page of the Nuremberg “Wochentliche Ordinari Post-Zeitung”. Re-used Woodblock, here we go. #bookhistory
#histodons #newshistory

For lovers of violins: I wrote an article about a very, very big violin, its sounds, and dancing soldiers. All this and more was on a #broadside published in 1632, in the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar. The topic? Portraying the news business as a generally untrustworthy industry producing false and #fakenews. For #NewsHistory, #BookHistory and #earlymodern #MediaHistory. Soon open access, stay tuned for more news. #histodons

“schwitze”! Hier wird ein Schwitzkastenbad “in bester Friedensausführung” angeboten. Das Jahr 1919. Die Annonce erschien in der Zeitung “Der Tag” am 26.3.1919. #ZeitungsmeldungenDerVergangenheit #histodons #NewsHistory #Hitze #Hitzewelle #Frieden #Schwitzkur

Im Jahr 1786 wurden Schreiber in #München gesucht, die schön schreiben sowie rechnen und "gut dictando schreiben" konnten. Ausserdem sollte man wohl ein Mann sein und "nicht mehr zu jung". Und mit dem Stadtleben war es vorbei, da man im "Land" arbeiten sollte. So stand es in einer Annonce im Anhang der "Münchner Zeitung" vom "Sonnabend, den 2. Brachmonat (Junius) 1786".
#ZeitungsmeldungenDerVergangenheit #NewsHistory

It's called #republishing.

Read other news, select good stories, copy + paste the texts and images, slightly rearrange the sentences, combine the stories into a new publication, and: Et voilà, offer your stuff as a new news item.

In 1684, someone combined three topics that were published elsewhere, and then republished them in a new pamphlet. #NewsHistory

Meet the pamphlet's story about severe weather, a ghost story, a wonder flour in this thread, #histodons and #bookhistory nerds:

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Das “Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte “ ist nun ein Vierteljahrhundert alt. Band 25 (2023) erscheint in diesen Tagen (https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fuer-Kommunikationsgeschichte-25-2023/9783515135641 ) und mit diesem Inhalt: https://media.dav-medien.de/toc/9783515135641_i.pdf Wir sind alle sehr stolz auf 25 Jahre mit mehr als 8000 publizierten Seiten und einem Open-Access-Rezensionsteil. Während Band 26 (2024) sich im Hintergrund formt, eine Frage an Sie: Hat Ihre Bibliothek uns eigentlich abonniert?

#bookhistory #mediahistory #communicationhistory #histodons #newshistory

Reading and writing letters is only one part of the story, as #bookhistory and #newshistory experts already know. Receiving a letter, a locked letter, like this lady in 1670 Paris, is one step of a complex communication process around moving ideas , stories and data connected to paper sheets. However, receiving a letter was and still is an important thing. In early modern Europe, this paper letter made you a witness, a news participator, a networker, an important person worth of news flows.

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You've got mail. A paper letter. In Germany 1632.

#histodons, let's have a look at letters being written, transported, and read all over Europe. News flows, all over. #earlymodernhistory #newshistory #history

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“Abonnenten, die verreisen und in der Sommerfrische unsere Zeitung nicht entbehren wollen, veranlassen die Nachsendung am besten schon eine Woche vor ihrer Abreise.”

Die Berliner #Zeitung “Der Tag”, Ausgabe vom 23. Juli 1918, kümmerte sich um die verehrte Leserschaft. Dass im Sommer 1918 die “Sommerfrische” aus einem Weltkrieg bestand, wird nicht erwähnt. #NewsHistory #histodons #ErsterWeltkieg

#ZeitungsmeldungenDerVergangenheit

What's under the umbrella? Well, #newshistory, journalism from handwritten to printed to digital news, #maphistory, visual mapmaking by humans on whatever material, global #printinghistory, #manuscript usages, a trade focus on book flows, a reading history, and much more about communication flows and infrastructure usages with "books" of all formats and materials. Basically, #bookhistory is an overextension of many fields and approaches dealing with past communication flows and artifacts.

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The #WienerZeitung is not the oldest newspaper in the world, as many today seem to repeat due the final printed version today. In fact, the Swedish "Post och Inrikes Tidningar" is bout 60 years older.

It is correct to say that the Wiener Zeitung is the oldest still running printed newspaper. The "Post och Inrikes Tidningar" changed to online about 15 years ego. #NewsHistory #Kommunikationsgeschichte #MediaHistory

Wissenswert: In #Hamburg gab es im Jahr 1750 eine lateinische Wochen-Zeitung, die seit 1744 mittwochs erschien, "auf einem halben Bogen in groß Octav", und deren alleiniger Autor -- Joh. Matt. Käuffelin -- wahnsinnig wurde und wegen "wüsten Wesens“ in ein Irrenhaus kam. #HistoFact #histodons #newshistory

Hi, I am the review editor for the Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte (Yearbook for Communication History), and we publish around 80 reviews annually in open access: https://biblioscout.net/books/series?id=JB-JKG

You are always welcome to highlight your new publications around the topic in an email to me: [email protected]

#bookhistory #paperhistory #mediahistory #histodons @histodons #DigitalHistory #NewsHistory

... about why reading newspapers is bad.

To make the emblem story short: The 1665 emblem advising to not write and print too much (and be merry), is building on the overall "too many books" argument of the period, and just in time for the growing critisicm of the establishing news industry of Europe. #NewsHistory

I will toot about the #Zeitungsdebatte in more detail soon. #histodons

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That's the #BreakingNews reference of early modern Europe: "the Newest of the Newest".

You see a German news pamphlet of 1618 with the meta title "Nova Novorvm Novissima ..." (in English: "the Newest of the Newest") followed by the title of the very news item ("Das ist Zeytung von ...").

Access: https://digital.ub.uni-leipzig.de/mirador/index.php

A catchy phrase that made sure everyone noticed that you are selling something worthy helped selling news. The news business was always a business. #NewsHistory #Histodons

Reading a #newspaper in the past was for centuries often a candlelight experience. And fire was potentially dangerous for papers, as you can see here: a tiny part burned while reading this paper copy of the Hamburgische Unpartheyische Correspondent in September 1794. Fun fact: the burnt part fits perfectly into the lion’s vignette logo of the newspaper, and makes the lion a fire spitting animal. #NewsHistory #histodons #Hamburg #BookHistory

Here are the details and links:

The periodical titled "Relationes curiosae oder Denckwürdigkeiten der Welt" and was published by Happel in #Leipzig and #Hamburg. Here is a digital copy if you are interested in seeing the motto vignette on a full page:
http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=periodica/ae-73-v1&pointer=4

The debate about the pros and cons of news media started in German speaking Europe as early as the first printed newspaper were available - that is early seventeenth century. #NewsHistory #History

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Selling the news was always a business that needed distribution strategies. Here, you see a mobile seller of early modern printed news. Let's focus on the details of this image, a woodcut print of 1631 covering a small pamphlet published in German speaking Europe during the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar, in a thread for #bookhistory and #newshistory experts, and of course all #histodons in general.

Access the digital copy of the pamphlet @SLUBDresden here: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/86300/1

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The road to success for an author was directed towards the inspirational Mount Helicon. The road's name ("Sentimenteele Weg" - sentimental way) however is mocking the author's sensibility on this creativity path. Fun detail, #bookhistory: a "brieven laan" (letter avenue) nearby. This refers to the postal networks of the time: Amsterdam was a well connected hotspot of the postal services, and a city full of letters. #NewsHistory

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Of course, when entering the port city of Amsterdam, as many ships did on a daily basis, you had to be aware of the dangerous "Nonsens-Gebucht Klippen": the cliffs of nonsense rumors! As a hotspot of the #earlymodern European news networks, Amsterdam was full of rumors that were present in songs, talks, printed images and texts. #NewsHistory

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Call for papers: "La presse périodique suisse dans le contexte médiatique européen / Die periodische Presse in der Schweiz im medialen Kontext Europas" (April 18-19 2024).

https://www.sgeaj.ch/aktualitaet/call-for-papers/die-periodische-presse-in-der-schweiz/

#MediaHistory #NewsHistory #CommuncationHistory #BookHistory

All this and more is #bookhistory nowadays: #newshistory, journalism from handwritten to printed to digital news transmission, #maphistory, visual mapmaking by humans on whatever material, #printinghistory, using global printing technologies, #manuscript usages ...(and more). Too much, isn't it? Remember the riot reference?