Dr Adam James Smith is a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at York St John University. Adam’s work explores the relationships between politics, news and literature, typically within the context of eighteenth-century print culture. His doctoral research examined eighteenth-century periodicals covertly sponsored by political parties. Subsequently, in 2016 he co-edited Poetry, Radicalism and Conspiracy in Sheffield, a volume of late eighteenth-century protest poetry.He is now developing his first monograph on Whig politics, politeness and satire for Boydell and Brewer and, alongside Dr Jo Waugh, co-directing the ongoing project 'Satire: Deaths, Births, Legacies'.