Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and author of The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620–1730. He is associate professor in social history at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in 2008. He lives in London.

Books in order of publication:

The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620–1730 – 2014

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 – 2023