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Jonathan Healey is an Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He directs the MSc in English Local History and the Undergraduate Diploma in English Social and Local History, having worked at Oxford Continuing Education since 2012.
His educational background includes a Doctorate and Bachelor's from Oxford (Magdalen College) and a Master's from Reading. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2008, received the Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize from the Economic History Society.
He specializes in early-modern English social and economic history, with research spanning poverty and poor relief systems, famine dynamics, common land politics, Lake District history, and the court of Star Chamber's role in social policy. His work bridges local history with broader revolutionary contexts of seventeenth-century England, emphasizing grassroots perspectives on legalism and political engagement.
Notable publications include The First Century of Welfare (2014), The Blazing World (2023; Times Book of the Week), and The Blood in Winter (2025), examining pre-civil war political tensions.
His scientific recognition includes:
- Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize (2008)
- BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers award (2012)
He actively supervises postgraduate researchers in early modern social history and the English Civil War period. Committed to public scholarship, he contributes to BBC Radio 4's You're Dead to Me, maintains a research-focused blog, and engages audiences via @socialhistoryox on social media.
