Handwritten Newspapers: An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods

Heiko Droste ( https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2729-0656) studied history, library science and political science at different German universities. He worked from 2007 to 2015 at Södertörn University. Since July 2015 he has been Professor of History and head of the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University. Heiko Droste’s research concerns German, Swedish and Baltic history between the 14th and 18th centuries, mainly questions of town and court history, friendship and patronage, cultural transfer, and different aspects of the early modern media history. His book about the news market in the 17th century Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten. Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Edition Lumière 2018) will be published in English in 2020: The business of news. A baroque market for social resources (Brill).

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander ( https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-1801) is University Lecturer in Folklore Studies at Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. Her long-term research has focused on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium in 19th- and early 20th-century Finland, and in Finnish immigrant communities in North America. Her doctoral thesis Itsekasvatusta ja kapinaa [Self-education and Rebellion, Finnish Literature Society 2004] focused on handwritten newspapers, and she has published many articles and edited volumes related with this theme. Her other fields of interest include oral history research, working-class culture, immigrant culture and the history of youth. One of her recent publications is an article in Oral Tradition and Book Culture, (eds Pertti Anttonen, Cecilia af Forselles & Kirsti Salmi-Niklander), Studia Fennica Folkloristica 24, 2018.