Ted Vallance
@tedvallance.bsky.social
Historian writing a book about regicide. Occasional and enthusiastic scuba diver and guitar player. Accomplished chef. Personal account, own views etc. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ted-vallance
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Ted Vallance
@tedvallance.bsky.social
· Nov 15
A (re)introduction for new(er) followers: I'm a historian working on 17th-century English politics and political culture. My main interests have been in conscience and the use of casuisty in a political context, questions of allegiance and loyalty, especially debates/controversies over oath-taking,
Introduce yourself with 5 animals (sort of) beginning with W you have seen in the wild:
- whale shark (Maldives)
- white-tailed sea eagle (Scotland)
- weasel (England)
- wild turkey (USA)
- woodchuck (Canada)
- whale shark (Maldives)
- white-tailed sea eagle (Scotland)
- weasel (England)
- wild turkey (USA)
- woodchuck (Canada)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals (sort of) beginning with W you have seen in the wild:
- whale shark (Maldives)
- white-tailed sea eagle (Scotland)
- weasel (England)
- wild turkey (USA)
- woodchuck (Canada)
- whale shark (Maldives)
- white-tailed sea eagle (Scotland)
- weasel (England)
- wild turkey (USA)
- woodchuck (Canada)
Cromwell banning Christmas season has started!
As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Cromwell banning Christmas season has started!
Top 5 film genres:
- Spock is dead
- Spock is alive
- Spock needs to go home as do some whales
- Spock makes everyone be friends with Klingons
- The Borg
- Spock is dead
- Spock is alive
- Spock needs to go home as do some whales
- Spock makes everyone be friends with Klingons
- The Borg
Top 5 film genres:
- Tom Hardy with a puppy
- Tom Hardy in a weird face mask
- Tom Hardy as an insane naked prisoner
- Tom Hardy as twins
- Tom Hardy as second fiddle to Charlize Theron
- Tom Hardy with a puppy
- Tom Hardy in a weird face mask
- Tom Hardy as an insane naked prisoner
- Tom Hardy as twins
- Tom Hardy as second fiddle to Charlize Theron
Top 5 film genres:
- People being violent in a really cool way but the moral is somehow that violence is bad
- pew pew pew
- low stakes eye candy
- I came here to watch some mindless entertainment but have been bait-and-switched into watching an actual good film
- CGI dinosaurs
- People being violent in a really cool way but the moral is somehow that violence is bad
- pew pew pew
- low stakes eye candy
- I came here to watch some mindless entertainment but have been bait-and-switched into watching an actual good film
- CGI dinosaurs
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Top 5 film genres:
- Spock is dead
- Spock is alive
- Spock needs to go home as do some whales
- Spock makes everyone be friends with Klingons
- The Borg
- Spock is dead
- Spock is alive
- Spock needs to go home as do some whales
- Spock makes everyone be friends with Klingons
- The Borg
Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.
First half of Harewood/Jones Othello at Haymarket ruined by awful Muzak coming from somewhere. Turned out to be someone who had left their phone on. How can you not hear your own phone playing hold music for over an hour!!! And then come back rather than die of shame!
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
First half of Harewood/Jones Othello at Haymarket ruined by awful Muzak coming from somewhere. Turned out to be someone who had left their phone on. How can you not hear your own phone playing hold music for over an hour!!! And then come back rather than die of shame!
Excellent project which brings back fond memories of being Labour candidate in our school’s 1992 mock election (and being denounced as a dangerous socialist by our then MP Sir Kenneth Baker).
Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excellent project which brings back fond memories of being Labour candidate in our school’s 1992 mock election (and being denounced as a dangerous socialist by our then MP Sir Kenneth Baker).
Reposted by Ted Vallance
Roehampton’s CRICA consortium, in partnership with LSE, funded by the AHRC and led by Prof Sara Houston, welcomes applications for projects exploring inclusive practices and cultures in the creative and performing arts. Deadline 10 December: www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academ...
The Consortium for Researching Inclusive Cultures in the Arts (CRICA)
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November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Roehampton’s CRICA consortium, in partnership with LSE, funded by the AHRC and led by Prof Sara Houston, welcomes applications for projects exploring inclusive practices and cultures in the creative and performing arts. Deadline 10 December: www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academ...
Roehampton’s CRICA consortium, in partnership with LSE, funded by the AHRC and led by Prof Sara Houston, welcomes applications for projects exploring inclusive practices and cultures in the creative and performing arts. Deadline 10 December: www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academ...
The Consortium for Researching Inclusive Cultures in the Arts (CRICA)
www.roehampton.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Roehampton’s CRICA consortium, in partnership with LSE, funded by the AHRC and led by Prof Sara Houston, welcomes applications for projects exploring inclusive practices and cultures in the creative and performing arts. Deadline 10 December: www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academ...
Is the inspiration clearer?
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Is the inspiration clearer?
Saw a real seal in Deal.
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Saw a real seal in Deal.
Have to agree with the Education White Paper that the REF has encouraged ‘perverse behaviours’. I am currently listening to Level 42’s eponymous debut album.
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Have to agree with the Education White Paper that the REF has encouraged ‘perverse behaviours’. I am currently listening to Level 42’s eponymous debut album.
Feeling blessed by the e-learning adviser who is giving externals a walk through of their VLE and has given all the dummy student accounts the names of characters from Star Trek TNG.
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Feeling blessed by the e-learning adviser who is giving externals a walk through of their VLE and has given all the dummy student accounts the names of characters from Star Trek TNG.
Details now available on how to apply for a SENSS PhD studentship at Roehampton: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX646/s...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Details now available on how to apply for a SENSS PhD studentship at Roehampton: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX646/s...
You can find more info on applying to SENSS here:https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academic-areas/graduate-school/senss/
Graduate School: SeNSS
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October 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You can find more info on applying to SENSS here:https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academic-areas/graduate-school/senss/
PhD studentships at Roehampton in a range of social
science areas via the SENSS DTP: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON882/f...
science areas via the SENSS DTP: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON882/f...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
PhD studentships at Roehampton in a range of social
science areas via the SENSS DTP: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON882/f...
science areas via the SENSS DTP: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON882/f...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all of your university’s key systems will break down in the first week of term.
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all of your university’s key systems will break down in the first week of term.
I understand that nowadays many people use AI to give them short summaries of articles. Let me save you the bother. The short of version of my Cromwelliana article on the whether the Remonstrance was a blueprint for regicide - yes.
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I understand that nowadays many people use AI to give them short summaries of articles. Let me save you the bother. The short of version of my Cromwelliana article on the whether the Remonstrance was a blueprint for regicide - yes.
I was watching the classic Star Trek TOS episode 'Space Seed' last night which introduces super-villain Khan Noonien Singh. I had forgotten that this episode features the ship's historian, Lt. Marla McGivers, who seems to spend most of her time making erotic drawings of gladiators in her quarters.
August 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I was watching the classic Star Trek TOS episode 'Space Seed' last night which introduces super-villain Khan Noonien Singh. I had forgotten that this episode features the ship's historian, Lt. Marla McGivers, who seems to spend most of her time making erotic drawings of gladiators in her quarters.
Same deadline 1 Sept for our medieval PDRA role on the 'Inclusive Histories' project.
We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.
FYA medievalists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Same deadline 1 Sept for our medieval PDRA role on the 'Inclusive Histories' project.
Last call for applications for this early modern PDRA role on our 'Inclusive Histories' project.
FYA early
modernists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
modernists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories
Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Last call for applications for this early modern PDRA role on our 'Inclusive Histories' project.
Why don’t we just add all the history up so we can find the answer?
August 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Why don’t we just add all the history up so we can find the answer?
Reposted by Ted Vallance
We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.
FYA medievalists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (13th-14th century focus) - Inclusive Histories
Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.
Reposted by Ted Vallance
Deadline for this early modern PDRA role coming up at the end of the month. 12 month contract working on our ‘Inclusive Histories’ project. Happy to have an informal chat with those interested in the post.
FYA early
modernists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
modernists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories
Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Deadline for this early modern PDRA role coming up at the end of the month. 12 month contract working on our ‘Inclusive Histories’ project. Happy to have an informal chat with those interested in the post.
We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.
FYA medievalists: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (13th-14th century focus) - Inclusive Histories
Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.