eBLJ 2023. The Thomason Tracts.

eBLJ 2023. The Thomason Tracts.

Image credit: The Malignants Trecherous and Bloody Plot against the Parliament and Citty of Lo: wch was by God's Providence Happily Prevented May 31, 1643 ([London]: Io. Hancock, 1643). BL, 669.f.8.(22.) In 2023 the eBLJ publishes thirteen articles, largely based on a conference held at the British Library, on the approximately 24,000 pamphlets, manuscripts and newspapers collected by the London bookseller George Thomason, an invaluable source for the study of the political events of 1640 to 1663.
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    ‘Honest George’: George Thomason and London during the Civil War and Revolution
    (2024-01-29)
    Lindley, Keith
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    Peacey, Jason
    Part of the fascination with Thomason is that he was more than merely a prominent bookseller who collected a vast collection of civil war pamphlets and newspapers. He was also an active participant in public life, in terms of the workings of the Stationers’ Company and in terms of political and religious machinations in London. This chapter utilizes a wide range of contemporary sources, including material from the Thomason Tracts, to trace his involvement in the political and religious affairs of the civil wars, down to the establishment of the republic in 1649. It reveals him to have been a zealous and highly partisan member of both his guild and the civic community, and this not only helps to contextualize his massive collection of contemporary printed material, but also to highlight how print became central to the ways in which he and others participated in the civil wars.
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