Robert Hepburn and the Edinburgh Tatler: a study in an early British periodical.

This article focuses on the 1711 Scottish version of the English journal "The Tatler," and the works of its editor, Robert Hepburn. It was in the first decades of the eighteenth century that a news network can be seen meaningfully to emerge between Scotland and England. In Scotland, the manufacture of literary periodicals responded more quickly than the manufacture of newspapers to the need to accept 1707 as a watershed in the relationship between Scotland and England. A 1711 Scottish version of "The Tatler" will show how an exchange of values, values associated with serial publication, the publication of current affairs, and moral immediacy, was established.