This set of pages describes two projects undertaken at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University to study some of the newsbooks of the mid-seventeenth century. Our first project looked at text re-use in a corpus of seventeenth-century news reportage; a subsequent project looked at the use of slang terms as code-words in one particular notorious title, Mercurius Fumigosus.
- Read about the background to the projects
- An overview of our projects
- A description of the encoding scheme used in the corpus
- Sample data files and a sample analysis
- Contact details and links
Funded by the British Academy, grant references SG-33825 and LRG-35423
Last updated 14th October 2010.