Dr Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey is associate professor in social history at the University of Oxford and author of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Recent articles by Dr Jonathan Healey

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How people power fuelled England’s century of chaos

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Dire straits: Beggars are depicted in a woodcut. In the 16th century, waves of crop failures persuaded the government to place poor relief on the statute book. (Image by Bridgeman)

Taxing the rich to feed the poor in the 17th century: the world’s first welfare state

The battle of Marston Moor, the largest clash of the Civil War, depicted in a 19th-century painting. Preventing a slide into chaos required

The Library What sparked the Civil War?