Jackie Eales

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 was President of the Historical Association (HA) from 2011 to 2014.

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.

Undergraduate teaching responsibilities

Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada Part of the Snapshots in History Module (Year 1)
The Monstrous Regiment Women in Tudor and Stuart England 1485-1714 and the accompanying linked module Sex, Deviance and Death (Year 2)
The English Revolution 1625-89, and the accompanying linked module, Sources for the English Civil War 1640-60 (Year 3)

She is also 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. For more details of the Canterbury 1641 Project follow this link.

Research Projects

Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Chris Crooks. Supervisor(s): Professor Jackie Eales, Dr Sara Wolfson. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Robert Gill. Supervisor(s): Professor Jackie Eales, Professor Keith McLay. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
Witchcraft and scepticism in England: A comparison of key texts by Reginald Scot, John Webster and Francis Hutchinson. Researcher(s): Mr Niall Johnson. Supervisor(s): Professor Jackie Eales, Professor Leonie Hicks. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Jackie is a Member of the AHRC Peer Review College and a Strategic Reviewer for the AHRC. She is also a Trustee and Council Member of the Historical Association and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Historical Association in 2016. 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/

Religion in times of war and Republic, 1642-1660 Eales, J., (29 Jun 2017), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
Anne and Thomas Fairfax and the Vere connection Eales, J., (28 Sep 2014), England's Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
Female literacy and the social identity of the clergy family in seventeenth-century England Eales, J., (Jul 2013): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
Forty Years on: Alan Everitt and the community of Kent revisited Eales, J., (Jul 2012), The County Community in 17th Century England and Wales. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. [Book chapter]
The clergy and allegiance at the outbreak of the English Civil Wars: the case of John Marston of Canterbury Eales, J., (2012): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
The county community in seventeenth-century England and Wales, (2012). Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. [Book]
An ancient mother in our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere Eales, J., (2010), The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
Commemorating the 6th of August: The Jesus Day Assize Sermons in Exeter Cathedral Eales, J., 3rd Colloquium on Early Modern Preaching: Regional and Parochial Preaching. [Conference paper]
Kent in the English Civil Wars 1640-1649 Eales, J., Kent in the English Civil Wars 1640-1649. [Conference paper]
17th century Canterbury travellers and collectors: the context of the Bargrave Collection Eales, J., Lecture. [Lecture]
Kent and the English Civil Wars, 1640-1649 Eales, J., (Mar 2008). [Journal article]
National political culture and provincial preaching as a point of contact in early modern England Eales, J., Early Modern Literature, Culture and Society Research Seminar. [Conference paper]
Thomas Traherne and royalism: influences and networks Eales, J., Thomas Traherne Annual Lecture. [Lecture]
Thomas Wilson and parliament Eales, J., 1648 Battle of Maidstone. [Lecture]
"So many sects and schisms": religion in Kent, 1640-1660 Eales, J., Religion in Revolutionary England: Manchester University Press. [Book chapter]
Kent in the Civil Wars and Commonwealth, 1642-1660 Eales, J., (2004), An Historical Atlas of Kent. Chichester: Phillimore. [Book chapter]
Provincial preaching and allegiance in the First English Civil War, 1640-1646 Eales, J., Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Early Stuart Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell: Cambridge University Press. [Book chapter]
Community and disunity: Kent and the English Civil Wars, 1640-1649 Eales, J., (01 Oct 2001). Whitstable, UK: Keith Dickson Books. [Book]
Kent and the English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 Eales, J., (2001), Government and Politics in Kent 1640-1914. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer. [Book chapter]
Patriarchy, puritanism and politics: The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643) Eales, J., Women's Letters and Letter Writing in England, 1450-1700. London: Palgrave. [Book chapter]
Politics and ideology in Kent, 1558-1640 Eales, J., (16 Nov 2000), Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640. Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer. [Book chapter]
The rise of ideological politics in Kent, 1558-1640 Eales, J., (2000), Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer. [Book chapter]
Women, patriarchy and personal piety in early modern England Eales, J., Women’s History Network Conference: Women and Religious Identities, 1500-1800. [Conference keynote]
Women and chess from N.P. Gerbanyevskaya to Judit Polgar, 1860-1990 Eales, J., Women and Brainpower Conference. [Conference paper]
Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 Eales, J., (14 Apr 1998). London, UK: Routledge. [Book]
A road to revolution: The continuity of Puritanism, 1559-1642 Eales, J., (24 Jan 1996), The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. London, UK: Macmillan. [Book chapter]
The culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700, (24 Jan 1996). London, UK: Macmillan. [Book]
Thomas Pierson and the transmission of the moderate Puritan tradition Eales, J., (Jun 1995): Maney. [Journal article]
Iconoclasm, iconography and the altar in the English civil war Eales, J., (1992), The Church and the Arts: Papers read at the 1990 Summer Meeting and the 1991 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford, UK; Cambridge Mass., USA: Blackwell. [Book chapter]
Puritans and Roundheads: the Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the outbreak of the English civil war Eales, J., (1990), Puritans and Roundheads: the Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. [Book]
Samuel Clarke and the lives of godly women in seventeenth century England Eales, J., (1990), Women in the Church. Oxford: Blackwell. [Book chapter]
Sir Robert Harley, K. B., (1579-1656) and the 'character' of a puritan Eales, J., (1989): British Library. [Journal article]

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