books.google.co.uk - The first weekly English newsbooks appeared in November 1641, on the eve of the civil war. Though they provoked animosity and fanned the flames of civil war, they have survived almost without interruption to the present day, transformed into the modern newspaper. The Invention of the Newspaper is the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Invention_of_the_Newspaper.html?id=y-7VaaKgiScC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Invention of the Newspaper