This Thursday, come explore the world of eighteenth-century news production with Ada Sussman’s new exhibition ‘Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century‘. The exhibition will be in the Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8, D08 W2A8, and will be open to the public from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. on Thursday, 30 April. All are welcome but please note that numbers in the Library Chamber are limited to 23 persons at any one time!
Using Worth’s collection of early modern periodicals, Ada explores how the informal essay transformed news writing from a journalistic, sociological, and historical perspective. The exhibition illustrates the material reality of eighteenth-century news production, the political theatre it engaged with, the emerging taste of the middle class, and the urban space in which it was canonised.
Best wishes,
Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian of the Edward Worth Library.
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian,
The Edward Worth Library (1733),
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland.
Tel: 00 353 1 635 2215.