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Jackie Eales 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 Oliver Cromwell, Elizabeth Fry and Edith Cavell.

Jackie 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.

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 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 currently working on the History of Canterbury during the Civil wars and on Seventeenth Century clergy wives and daughters.

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, Forthcoming 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.
• Community and Disunity: Kent and the English Civil Wars, 1640-1649 (Keith Dickson Books, 2001).
• '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).

Courses Taught

• Year 1 – The Renaissance; The Princes in the Tower.
  
• Year 2 Women, Power and Patronage in Tudor and Stuart England.
  
• Year 3 Civil War and Revolution in England, 1625-1689