About Ted Vallance

I'm a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Liverpool.

My new history of the Glorious Revolution, The Glorious Revolution: 1688 and Britain's Fight for Liberty, has recently been published in paperback by Little, Brown and Co.

I am currently writing a history of English radicalism.

Previously, I lectured in early modern history at the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield, where I was the De Velling Willis Research Fellow.

I studied history at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where my D.Phil was on oaths of allegiance in 17th century England.

Research Interests

I mainly work on 17th century British political and religious history.

My past research has focused on the significance of oaths of allegiance in this period, particularly their reinterpretation as covenants binding the nation to God.

I am also interested more generally in the history and historiography of Britain's seventeenth century revolutions and the radical ideas that grew out of them. These interests will be developed in a book on England's radical history which I have recently been commissioned to write.

In addition, I've published books and articles on the notion of conscience and the use of casuistry in early modern England.

I am now working on my next major research project on the construction of popular loyalty in early modern England (funded by the British Academy). Feeding into this, I ran a workshop on Loyalties and Allegiances in Early Modern England in February 2007.

I am also an editor on the new Pickering and Chatto monograph series 'Political and Popular Culture in Early Modern England'.