'The News Imaginary'

Joad Raymond has taught at Oxford, Aberdeen, and the University of East Anglia, and is now Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. His work on history and print culture includes The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641–1649 (Oxford, 1996; 2005), Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003), Milton’s Angels: the Early-Modern Imagination (Oxford, 2010), and (ed.) The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 (Oxford, 2011). He directed the Leverhulme Trust research network News Networks in Early-Modern Europe (2011–13), and the publication of a large eponymous collection of essays is imminent. He is presently writing a history of news communication in early modern Europe for Penguin Books, and editing Milton’s Latin defences for the in-progress Complete Works of John Milton, published by Oxford University Press.