John Spurr Author & Editor

Dr John Spurr is Professor of History and Head of the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. He has written extensively on seventeenth-century Britain and has made particular studies of its religion, culture and language. In time stolen from his managerial responsibilities, he is working on a variety of topics from the high politics of Charles II’s reign to a comprehensive account of the role of swearing in our history.