Ted Vallance

Articles by Ted Vallance

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Books

1688: The First Modern Revolution

22 October 2009

A new history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 labours too hard to prove that it was every bit as bloody as France in 1789 or Russia in 1917.

Life & Society

Off with their heads

09 July 2009
14 comments

From Wat Tyler swilling beer in front of Richard II to chants of “God save the poor and down with George III”, the British have a long history of hostility towards the Crown. Can it survive the coronation of King Charles III?

Politics

Burning down the House

04 June 2009
4 comments

Bereft of ideas, the party leaders are ransacking the storehouse of history. Yet, in their very desperation, they are sowing the seeds of destruction of our political system

Television

A bodice-tightening yarn

21 November 2008

Channel 4's 'The Devil's Whore' is an oddly repressed romp through the English civil war.

UK Politics

A bill of rights for Britain?

24 September 2008
8 comments

The historic problem with the British 'charters of freedom' like Magna Carta are that they are aimed at binding the hands of kings, not cabinet ministers - no surprise then that a bill of rights has been pushed to the margins

UK Politics

Sworn to the Queen

14 March 2008
8 comments

Historical records left behind by exercises in mass public oath-taking dating back to the 16th century are vast yet, as with Lord Goldsmith's proposals, it is hard to find much evidence of popular enthusiasm for these exercises.

Life & Society