My book, bigged-up in Wired magazine this month.
Journal of British Studies – Special Section on Loyalties and Allegiances in Early Modern England
I am very pleased to say that the latest issue of JBS features the special section I co-edited with Angela McShane on the above.
Contents:
Andy Wood, “A lyttull worde ys tresson”: Loyalty, Denunciation, and Popular Politics in Tudor England”
Ted Vallance, ‘The Captivity of James II: Gestures of Loyalty and Disloyalty in Seventeenth-Century England’
Howard Nenner, ‘Loyalty and the Law: The Meaning of Trust and the Right of Resistance in Seventeenth-Century England’
Angela McShane, ‘Subjects and Objects: Material Expressions of Love and Loyalty in Seventeenth-Century England’
Steve Pincus on the Glorious Revolution – History Today Magazine
In this month’s History Today, Steve Pincus gives an overview of his take on the Revolution of 1688-9. The article can be accessed in full, free of charge, over here. I’ll be posting my own review of Professor Pincus’ book in due course.
Dr Who and the Glorious Revolution
This looks fantastic. From the people who brought you Dr. Who vs. Oliver Cromwell.
Steve Pincus on the Glorious Revolution
There’s a short Yale interview on youtube with Prof. Steve Pincus discussing the Glorious Revolution.
Prof. Pincus’ new book on 1688 is out at the end of the month in the US and in October in the UK.
The Glorious Stereo Reading Experiment – they think it’s all over,
It is now!
I will be doing a Q & A on Scott’s blog in the near future, so look out for more Glorious Revolution related fun soon.
A Radical History of Britain
has now gone to the publishers. Yippee! It has a new, exciting subtitle, Visionaries, rebels and revolutionaries: the men and women who fought for our freedoms, and a firm publication date, 4 June 2009.
In other news, over at Me and My Big Mouth, the battle continues between myself and Patrick Dillon, though this round looks more like a dead heat. Scott’s got as far as the revolutionary wars in Ireland and Scotland, so the end result is imminent. Whatever the outcome, history, I think, has been the winner.
Finally, as it’s Halloween, news from CNN that some present-day witches want their sixteenth- and seventeenth-century predecessors to be posthumously pardoned.
Amusingly, someone from the Ministry of Justice has replied to the effect that
“Evidence must prove conclusively that no offense was committed or that the applicant did not commit the offense. It is not enough that the conviction may be unsafe — the applicant must be technically and morally innocent.”
Does the Ministry of Justice believe in the power of maleficient magic? I suppose the recall of Peter ‘Lord Vader’ Mandelson is evidence enough.
