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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm sorry I have to be the one brave enough to say this, but the word 'entangled' is overused by today's academics.

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Couple of fabulous choices here: the Barber Piano Concerto is wonderful, and I *love* Foulds's Keltic Lament: www.bbc.co.uk/proms/extra/...

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Last Night of the Proms 2026

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On 18 September I'll be talking at the Oxford Levellers' Day, which celebrates two lesser-known martyrs to the cause, Privates Biggs and Piggen. There will be a talk and a gathering at Rewley House, Oxford. Do come along if you can. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-levell...

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The Levellers: Radical Lessons from the 17th Century

Political education event with Dr Jonathan Healey (Kellog College), followed by social. All welcome, free of charge.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Win for Leeds, did the Times Cryptic in an hour, hit a couple of hole-in-ones on the crazy golf. Guess this is what it feels like to be Ice Cube.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Great to see Puritans writing the sports news.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

August 27th 1642, only 3 days after Charles raised his standard at Nottingham: the livery companies are instructed to lend 6000 muskets and 4000 pikes to Parliament 'for the defence and safety of this kingdome'. Only the trained bands were allowed to keep their arms. @jonathanhealey.bsky.social

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Totally book-mogged at the all-inclusive hotel in Menorca by a guy reading Stripping of the Altars.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nice autograph there on a Jacobean Star Chamber document, if you’re a fan of celebrity 1640s royalists.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Guys there seems to be water coming out of the sky?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/07/2026

We've two new volumes in the Society's Camden Series of primary editions: > 'The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–91', ed Evan Bourke > 'Francis Slingsby (1611–42) and the Jesuits', ed Brian Mac Cuarta - published next week More on our latest Camdens bit.ly/4wvv9P1

Cover images of six recent volumes in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Series of primary source editions:

Francis Slingsby (1611–1642) and the Jesuits, edited by Brian Mac Cuarta
The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–1691, edited by Evan Bourke
A Collector Collected. The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Akan and Curtis Leung.
The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler
The Papers of Admiral George Grey, edited by Michael Taylor
THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF ROBERT AND KATHERINE GREVILLE, LORD AND LADY BROOKE, AT HOLBORN AND WARWICK, 1640–1649, edited Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper, Ann Hughes

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m hoping Christopher Nolan writes a scathing review of Wilson’s next translation project, let’s get a real feud going. “Her clumsy and consistent flattening of the gnomic aorist into a bare preterite utterly fails to capture the nuance of the original!”

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Currently sat near to the Proms Final Boss. You know who I mean.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hydration break.

Hogarth Gin Lane etching. Scenes of debauched drunkenness.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

KNIGHTHOOD FOR ROONEY

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fair play to Somerset that was quite the comeback

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Jonathan Fennell @jonathanfennell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Book of the Week in @thetimes.com! 'Fennell marshals a host of original insights and judgments in a narrative of terrific verve ... a superb book' says Max Hastings. The stuff of dreams! thetimes.com/culture/book... @dsdkings.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I, Jordan Henderson, got a yellow card and a terrible injury in the legendary 2026 match against Mexico at the Azteca While playing, right?

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Excellent performance there from famous Yorkshireman Erling Haaland.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Shocked to learn that FIFA, of all people, seem to be corrupt.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The fact this book was published in Lancaster makes the title even funnier….

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wonder if England should consider playing somebody at right back?

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Historians on social media: ‘Erm, actually….’

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just saw a little wisp of cloud....

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hopefully scanning the horizon for storm clouds like Wellington looking out for Von Blücher.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Obviously not ideal for school to close at 1pm all this week, but Alice is currently sat in front of a BBC show in which someone is farting the Blue Danube waltz, so education does continue.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/06/2026

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Kicking off in Nottingham on 22 August. Now where have I heard that before?

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Delighted to share the publication of 'Proceedings of the Privy Council 1582-3' (Boydell&Brewer) by my friend & colleague David Crankshaw. David found this previously-lost volume in the Spanish archives and has written a superb & lengthy introduction on mid-Elizabethan politics. #earlymodern

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

HUGE anniversary in Civil War history today... The 'Declaration' of Fairfax's army on 14 June 1647 calls for constitutional reform including regular elections, so ‘that the people may have an equal hope, or possibility, if they have made an ill choice at one time, to mend it in another’.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Reading about a Cambridge scholar in the 1640s who made a pact with the devil so he could get an academic career.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I sort of agree about the word ‘trade’ and always try to avoid it, but Hilary Mantel’s jibe about book sales was silly. It ought to be possible to disagree about how we interpret the past without making it a pissing contest about market share.

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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That's nothing, when I was writing my thesis (on Herodotos) spell checker changed Zoroaster to Scoutmaster and Isaiah to Ipswich....

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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Apropos of nothing, my wife’s cousin, an army NCO, was so bored in his office job that he set his autocorrect so that “battalion” became “bollocks”. He didn’t realise that this was a battalion-wide change. His CO stormed up to him and shouted. “Someone’s playing silly buggers. Can you sort it out?”

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Lambeth Palace Library's previous catalogue was obsessed with 'correcting' Robert Runcie to Crunchier Robbers.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I love the Bodleian's SOLO but its autocorrect is a little bit overzealous. Current issue is that it keeps changing a search for Nicholas Tyacke to 'Nicholas Teacake'.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We used to be a proper country.....

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The huge relief that the historian (i.e. me) feels when there is a change of staff in the Inquisition and a new notary with a much more legible hand starts to record the denunciations.

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