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Jonathan Healey

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Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 29m

‘It is perfectly in order… for those who value this [British] democracy to hail the New Model Army as ideological ancestors.’

Ronald Hutton in his most recent book.

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

Context: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Anger over ‘sacrilegious’ graffiti art installation at Canterbury Cathedral

Responses to the project on display at the historic building have been mixed

www.independent.co.uk

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see the Church of England today arguing about what is and isn’t suitably decorous for the inside of a cathedral.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

It was two OUP books.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely bit of understatement here from the Wikipedia entry about Republic, which is still an album I'm very fond of.

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

About to teach the first class for our wonderful MSc in English Local History at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social - including a discussion of some of my favourite local history sources, like this 1586 map of the Isle of Purbeck.

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 2d

Academics: We're overworked, underpaid and unappreciated.
Academics at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: I spent the afternoon in a bedsheet, being a ghost.

That's it. That's what @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and I are paid to do. Things won't get better.

#AcademicSky

Ghost Joanna reads to a stuffed museum bear.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

As opposed to what, exactly?

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

Totally on board with the sentiment here from our VC, but ‘raw smarts’ sounds like another phrase for ‘eggy pumps’.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 5d

'Print was a revolutionary medium, with a greater impact on "public opinion" than ever before, yet it was also embedded amongst older media, connected to the intimacies of manuscript transmission and the directness of angry conversations.'

Ann Hughes on the role of print in the 1640s.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 6d

Booo.

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Ian Lance Richardson @ricojosh.bsky.social · 8d

Yorkshire Photo of the Day - West Doors at Beverley Minster.

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 8d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 9d

Yes - it is!

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 10d

Undoubtedly!

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 10d

In 1646, two English army chaplains came to the conclusion that 'universities are of the devil'. This happened after they had been stationed in Oxford for a few months.