Dutch Censorship in Relation to Foreign Contacts (1581–1795)

Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe

“…27 This management goes much further than early modern diplomacy's meddling with censorship, which reinforces the image of politicians suppressing information. 28 As Jason Peacey's article in this issue exemplifies, we now know that diplomats also actively sought to change the news. It was owing to such diplomatic activity, then, that certain news-items appeared in certain places, and others did not.…”