My A Radical History of Britain has been entered into this year’s competition…along with another 211 books.
Chances of winning? To quote from The Naked Gun,
“Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there’s only a 10 percent chance of that.”
In other self-obsessed news, my The Glorious Revolution has now been released as an e-book by its US publisher, Pegasus. Download here. Price: a cent under a ten-spot.
…was on Radio 4 last night with contributions from yours truly. Listen here via BBC i-player.
My book, bigged-up in Wired magazine this month.
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’
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.
This looks fantastic. From the people who brought you Dr. Who vs. Oliver Cromwell.
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.
