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Paper documents are all around us, but where did they come from and how did they become ubiquitous parts of our world?

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor in the Department of History, explains in the recently recorded podcast episode of Revolution250, where he discusses his research on paper, archives, and the making of the early modern British empire.

"My scholarship offers pathbreaking insight into the workings of early modern government and offers a new perspective on how written records came to be ubiquitous parts of the experience of modern citizenship," Kapur Siddique says. 

Siddique, with podcast host Robert Alison, previewed his forthcoming Yale University Press book, "The Experience of the Archive: Knowledge and the Making of the Early Modern British Empire." 

Listen to the episode.