Jonathan Healey
Jonathan Healey is a University Lecturer in English Local and Social History at the University of Oxford. He works on poverty, economic development, popular political history, and rural history from the 15th to the 19th centuries. In 2012 he was picked as one of the winners of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers competition. His blog is The Social Historian.
Interviews with Jonathan Healey
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The Return of Martin Guerre
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2
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
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3
Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700
by David Levine & Keith Wrightson -
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The History of Myddle
by Richard Gough -
5
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
by Timothy Brook
The best books on Microhistory, recommended by Jonathan Healey
The best books on Microhistory, recommended by Jonathan Healey
The historian defines and discusses micro-history, choosing five books that use historical minutiae to answer big questions about the past.
