ABSTRACT
In the upheavals of Commonwealth, Restoration and Glorious Revolution, no notice had been taken in England of one crucial continental advance, the daily newspaper. Nobody in England had thought to do this, although dailies had begun in Germany half a century earlier. In Leipzig, the first daily paper, the Einkommende Zeitung, had appeared in 1650. 1 It was only after Queen Anne came to the throne in 1702 that a London printer, Samuel Buckley, took advantage of the rising numbers of cross-Channel packets, always a crucial determinant of newspaper frequency, to publish the Daily Courant.
