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staff list  BackProf Jackie Eales

  • Job title: Professor of Early Modern History
  • Dept: History and American Studies
  • Tel: 01227 454700 ext 23
  • Campus: Canterbury
JackieEales 

Academic/Personal Background

Jackie first got hooked on History at primary school and has been inhaling deeply ever since. She studied at London University, where Conrad Russell cured her obsession with the Tudors, but she is now obsessed with the English Civil Wars instead. She taught at London University and the University of Kent, before the historians at Christ Church offered her asylum. She is very impressed by Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Fry and Edith Cavell. She is currently researching the History of Canterbury during the Civil Wars (1640-49) and Seventeenth Century clergy wives and daughters.

Jackie is also President of the Historical Association, her term of office running from 2011 to 2014. The Historical Association is the major national organisation representing the case for an historical education to policy makers and ministers. There are over 53 local branches of the HA across the country, including one in Canterbury, with lively programmes of lectures and historical visits. For more on the HA, visit http://www.history.org.uk/|

Undergraduate Teaching Responsibilities

Level 4 (Year 1): “State Formation in Early Modern Europe”

Level 5 (Year 2): “Women, Power and Patronage in Tudor and Stuart England”, and the linked module “Hidden From History”.

Level 6 (Year 3): “The English Revolution 1625-89”, and linked module, “Sources for the English Civil War 1640-60”.

Research Interests

Jackie is an expert on the English Civil Wars and her research focuses on Puritanism and the Parliamentarians. She is particularly interested in clergy families and the political aspects of preaching in the period. She has published widely on the history of Kent during the civil wars and also has a number of publications on women's history including Women in Tudor and Stuart England (Routledge, 1998) and a monograph on the feisty civil war puritan heroine, Brilliana Harley - Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (Hardinge Simpole Publishing, 2002).

She is Director of the John Hayes|| Canterbury 1641 Project, which is supported by the John Hayes Trust, the William Urry Fund and Canterbury Archaeological Society. The Project is based on the 1641 poll tax return for Canterbury, which lists all heads of households and their adult dependents living inside the city walls in 1641. The Project will trace the allegiance and experiences of the inhabitants of the city during the civil wars using petitions, wills and related material. The Project is inspired by the work of John Hayes, a former Head of History at Christ Church, whose own research centred both on Urban History and the History of Canterbury. http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-humanities/history-and-american-studies/history/VirtualArchiveResearch/1641PollTax/Home.aspx|

Recent Publications

  • 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere (1581-1671' in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Johanna Harris eds., The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

  • 'So many sects and schisms': religious diversity in revolutionary Kent, 1640-1660' in C. Durston and J. Maltby eds. Religion in Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2006).

  • 'Kent in the Civil wars and Commonwealth, 1642-1660' in T. Lawson and D. Killingray eds., An Historical Atlas of Kent (Phillimore, 2004), pp. 88-90.

  • 'Provincial Preaching and Allegiance in the First English Civil War, 1640-1646' in T. Cogswell, R. Cust and P. Lake eds., Politics, Religion and 'Popularity' In Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

  • Community and Disunity: Kent and the English Civil Wars, 1640-1649, Four Local History Lectures (Keith Dickson Books, 2001).

  •  'Kent and The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660' in F. Lansberry (ed), Politics and Government in Kent, 1640-1914, Kent History Project Vol 7 (Boydell and Brewer, 2001).

  • 'Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643)' in J. Daybell and C. Brown (eds), Women's Letters and Letter Writing in England, 1450-1700 (Palgrave, 2001) pp. 143-158. 

  • 'Kent and The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660' in F. Lansberry (ed), Politics and Government in Kent, 1640-1914, Vol 5, Kent History Project Vol 6 (Boydell and Brewer, 2001) pp. 1-32.

  • 'Politics and Ideology in Kent, 1558-1640' in M. Zell (ed), Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640, Kent History Project Vol 5 (Boydell and Brewer, 2000).