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Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey
JONATHAN HEALEY is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and author of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603–1689. He is associate professor in social history at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in 2008. He lives in Oxford.


How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain

Jonathan Healey on the Political Turmoil That Marred the Year of 1642
September 18, 2025  By Jonathan Healey
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