Jonathan Healey
Born in Leeds in 1982, Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He writes history from the bottom up, focusing on ordinary people – their lives, loves, culture and politics.
He is Associate Professor in Social History at Oxford, the university from which he got his doctorate in 2008. He lives in Oxford, and can usually be found brandishing an obscure manuscript at the National Archives.
Jonathan is the author of The Blazing World, a history of England in the seventeenth century, and The Blood In Winter, which tells the story of England’s descent into civil war in 1642. He is published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Knopf in the US
Jonathan is represented by Charlotte Merritt.
