Richard Overton Author

Richard Overton (fl. 1640–1664) was an English pamphleteer and Leveller during the Civil War and Interregnum (England). He wrote An Arrow Against All Tyrants while incarcerated in Newgate Gaol. 

Ian Gadd is Professor in English Literature at Bath Spa University, where he is academic director of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts. He is a member of the board of directors of the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution and an external member of the curators of the University Libraries at the Bodeleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the literature and history of the 16th, 17th and early 18th Centuries. 

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