JONATHAN HEALEY is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and author The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620–1730. He is associate professor in social history at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in 2008. He lives in London.
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