for many years I was an academic, teaching in English departments, and writing scholarly history. These are some of the books I published under the name Joad Raymond:
Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), co-written with Jenni Hyde, Massimo Rospocher, Yann Ryan, Hannu Salmi and Alexandra Schäfer-Griebel.
Milton’s Angels: the Early-Modern Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013). Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society.
edited, with Noah Moxham, News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback 2006).
The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996; paperback edition with new preface 2005).
(ed.) The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for a reference work awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society.
(ed.) with Jeroen Salman and Roeland Harms, Not Dead Things: The dissemination of popular print in Britain, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1900 (Library of the Written Word; Leiden: Brill, 2013).
(ed.) with Juraj Kittler, John Nerone. Paper Scarcity and its Impact on Print Culture / Historical Parallels with the Spectrum Scarcity Debate. Media History, 21.1 (2015) Special issue.
(ed.) Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
(ed.) News Networks in Seventeenth-century Britain and Europe (London: Routledge, 2006).
(ed.) with Graham Parry, Milton and the Terms of Liberty (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). Received the Irene Samuel Award of the Milton Society of America for the most distinguished collection on Milton published in 2002.
(ed.) News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain. Published as a special issue of Prose Studies (1998[9]); and as a book (London: Frank Cass, 1999).
(ed.) Making The News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660 (Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush Press, 1993).
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