Complex sentence: It was a gadfly publication, which offered readers a summary and analysis of the flood of new publications issuing from the presses at the end of the eighteenth century and provided a forum for radical political and religious ideas.
Split into simpler sentences: It was a gadfly publication, which offered readers a summary and analysis of the flood of new publications issuing from the presses at the end of the eighteenth century. It also provided a forum for radical political and religious ideas.