With about 1000 new followers in the last months, I guess it's time for an updated

#introduction

:

Hi there! My name is Daniel Bellingradt, and I am an

historian with a weak spot for all things communication and media. I wrote books about pamphlet wars, about the paper trade, about magical manuscripts, and about an app trail through Hamburg. My next book is about early modern news.

Here is a photo of me sitting impressed and silent next to big books. Most used #:

#onmydesktoday

is a big and timely book about European communication by the great Joad Raymond Wren. Exploring a world of

#earlymodern

newsmongers, translators and postmasters, Joad highlights that news moved and were shared, and that news binds us together. Good news for

#histodons

#newshistory

#bookhistory