Arthur der Weduwen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author of Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Brill, 2017), The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (with Andrew Pettegree, Yale UP, 2019), and The Library, A Fragile History (with Andrew Pettegree, Profile, 2021), a Sunday Times Book of the Year.