Jonathan McGovern FRHistS (born 1993) is an English historian and author.
[3] He read History and English at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, where he won the Smith Prize.
[5][6] He is currently Professor of English at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University.
[7] He has defended traditionalist historical methods, arguing for the importance of empiricism in history "as a practical benchmark, not a philosophical position".
[8] In 2021, he published his discovery of the eighteenth-century origin of the phrase "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest", which was formerly misattributed to King Henry II of England.