Joad Raymond is a Welsh writer and scholar, based in London.
He was educated at the University of East Anglia and the University of Oxford. He taught at both universities and the University of Aberdeen, before becoming Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and has held visiting posts in Florence, Granada and Paris.
He has written about early modern Europe: about cheap print and news, angels, the role of the imagination in political thought, and the capacity of utopia to carry us beyond the horizons of our own thinking.
He is the author of three books: THE INVENTION OF THE NEWSPAPER: ENGLISH NEWSBOOKS, 1641-1649 (OUP, 1996; 2005); PAMPHLETS AND PAMPHLETEERING IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN (CUP, 2003); and MILTON’S ANGELS: THE EARLY-MODERN IMAGINATION (OUP, 2010) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature. Nine edited books include the globally influential NEWS NETWORKS IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE (Brill, 2016), edited with Noah Moxham; MILTON AND THE TERMS OF LIBERTY (D. S. Brewer, 2002) edited with Graham Parry, which received the Irene Samuel Award of the Milton Society of America for the most distinguished collection on Milton published in 2002, and THE OXFORD HISTORY OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE Vol 1: CHEAP PRINT IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO 1660 (OUP, 2011) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for a reference work.
He is currently editing Volume 7 of THE LATIN DEFENCES, for Oxford’s THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, gen. eds. Thomas N. Corns and Gordon Campbell, for which he hopes to be rewarded in Heaven, and working on his next book, UTOPIA: A TRAVELLER’S GUIDE, which will be a study of utopias throughout history and literature.
He intermittently contributes to TV and radio documentaries, talking about the history of printing, seventeenth-century print culture, seventeenth-century women, news, and pamphlets. He has written for the Guardian, the TLS, the LRB, the TES, History Today, BBC History and other journals.
Joad’s non-academic interests are mainly parenting, running marathons, making and looking at art, and making and listening to music. Under the name ‘The Unattached’ – a collaborative project with more accomplished musicians – he writes and performs avant-folk music. Their next album, Requiem for Dead Dogs, will be released by Gare du Nord in 2022.
His new book, THE NEWS IN EUROPE, 1400-1800, will be published by Penguin Books in 2023.
He was educated at the University of East Anglia and the University of Oxford. He taught at both universities and the University of Aberdeen, before becoming Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and has held visiting posts in Florence, Granada and Paris.
He has written about early modern Europe: about cheap print and news, angels, the role of the imagination in political thought, and the capacity of utopia to carry us beyond the horizons of our own thinking.
He is the author of three books: THE INVENTION OF THE NEWSPAPER: ENGLISH NEWSBOOKS, 1641-1649 (OUP, 1996; 2005); PAMPHLETS AND PAMPHLETEERING IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN (CUP, 2003); and MILTON’S ANGELS: THE EARLY-MODERN IMAGINATION (OUP, 2010) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature. Nine edited books include the globally influential NEWS NETWORKS IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE (Brill, 2016), edited with Noah Moxham; MILTON AND THE TERMS OF LIBERTY (D. S. Brewer, 2002) edited with Graham Parry, which received the Irene Samuel Award of the Milton Society of America for the most distinguished collection on Milton published in 2002, and THE OXFORD HISTORY OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE Vol 1: CHEAP PRINT IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO 1660 (OUP, 2011) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for a reference work.
He is currently editing Volume 7 of THE LATIN DEFENCES, for Oxford’s THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, gen. eds. Thomas N. Corns and Gordon Campbell, for which he hopes to be rewarded in Heaven, and working on his next book, UTOPIA: A TRAVELLER’S GUIDE, which will be a study of utopias throughout history and literature.
He intermittently contributes to TV and radio documentaries, talking about the history of printing, seventeenth-century print culture, seventeenth-century women, news, and pamphlets. He has written for the Guardian, the TLS, the LRB, the TES, History Today, BBC History and other journals.
Joad’s non-academic interests are mainly parenting, running marathons, making and looking at art, and making and listening to music. Under the name ‘The Unattached’ – a collaborative project with more accomplished musicians – he writes and performs avant-folk music. Their next album, Requiem for Dead Dogs, will be released by Gare du Nord in 2022.
His new book, THE NEWS IN EUROPE, 1400-1800, will be published by Penguin Books in 2023.