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

Great to see Puritans writing the sports news.

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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 · 13/07/2026

I'm pretty cynical about this kind of managerial horseshit at the best of times, but the fact they have a typo *in the first sentence* is just perfect.

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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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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 · 19/06/2026

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

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

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

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Am sorry but it’s clearly JS Bach.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Stunning new insight into the English Civil War just dropped:

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Arguably one sign of the decline of historical literacy in the world today is that people are driven to view scholarly debate as ‘truth vs propaganda’.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Definite George Monck energy going on here.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Was just reading about a public religious conference between soldiers in the New Model Army and clergymen at the University of Oxford, held in 1646, and... I'm not sure Proquest has quite nailed this one.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Feels like one of these three religious opinions is a bit different to the others:

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

I now feel better about the time someone complained to my boss about me doing an online meeting (during lockdown) from my bed.

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

If you want a chuckle, check out this rant from a hotelier whose chalet I stayed in over the Easter hols. It had dodgy electrics, leaking plumbing and, er, no fire alarms. I wasn't pleased and reviewed it here on Google. www.google.com.jm/travel/hotel...

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

Thomas Fairfax on 3 June 1645, promising that his army would never treat women as cruelly as the royalists had done at Leicester. A grim irony given what would happen a few days later at Naseby.

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

Letter from Prince Rupert ordering the razing of Chilton House, then, the next day: ‘You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!’

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

Fascinating letter from Charles I in 1644, ordering the church and village of Boarstall to be pulled down for military reasons.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Been skiing for three days, which is enough to learn that this is a lie.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Loved this from the Bodleian John le Carre exhibition. Alec Guinness writing to the author, worrying about playing George Smiley because ‘although thick-set I am not really rotund and double-chinned’.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Early modernists! Anyone seen the word 'gossip' applied to a man before? Got a will here that appoints 'my good and loving gossip Mr Henry Ireton' (yes, that Henry Ireton) as overseer. Dates to 1648.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just got this letter from the local estate agent, who’ve played an absolute blinder there…

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

‘We are but newly delivered from rebellion, and we know that that rebellion first begun under the pretence of religion and the law’. A royalist perspective on the causes of the Civil War, from the 1660s, from LCJKB Keeling.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

That's not East Sussex. Everyone knows it's Yorkshire.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sorry to say that this absolutely sucked.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Greetings card companies now offer to get AI to suggest your personal message. How grim is that.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

During the siege of Bristol in 1645, Thomas Fairfax wrote to Prince Rupert setting out the reasons for which he fought. It's an interesting text, which focuses entirely on constitutional rights, law, and the nature of monarchy.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can't believe they let him run off to a festival, even for a day:

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Great Hirohito-style euphemism here from a New Model Army chaplain, regarding their failure to take Boarstall House in 1645. 'The success was not according to our desires (the Moat being much deeper than we expected)'.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Stonehenge gift shop is well stocked with Huttonalia.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Have been reading Joshua Sprigge's history of the Civil War. He was a Parliamentary army chaplain, but it's interesting that he frames the conflict as one of constitutional liberties rather than religion.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Not sure why but it tickles me that the Latin for Seth is ‘Sethus’.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Had lots of fun teaching palaeography today, but am also probably going to get fired…

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Fascinating point by Donagan, in what must be one of the best books ever written about the English Civil War. Helps explain how the constitutional/legal aspects of the conflict were able to cut through to the wider population.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Haha. Obviously she's talking about P.R. Newman, because of course she is.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Somewhere in this image are recruitment agencies who pester you by emailing you every day until you send a reference for a former student....

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reading about the fascinating William Campion, who died at the siege of Colchester in 1648, and slightly tickled by this AI generated description. ‘His death marked the end of his support for the Royalist cause’. Well, yes, I suppose it probably would.

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