Joad Raymond Wren is a writer and historian of early modern Europe who, before leaving academia, taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper,Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Milton's Angels, and, as editor, Making the News, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, News Networks in Early Modern Europe, The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe and The Complete Works of John Milton: Latin Defences. He has also written a novel, All the Colours You Cannot Name

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