Showing posts with label the British monarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the British monarchy. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

A review of the BBC’s “The Plantagenets”

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“No scutage nor aid [i.e. forms of medieval taxation] shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom [which is the...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

A review of the BBC’s “The Stuarts & The Stuarts in Exile”

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“… all and every person and persons, who shall or may take or inherit the said Crown, by virtue of the limitation of this present act, and i...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

A review of David Starkey’s “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant”

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Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to discuss them tastefully, there’s no way to take them out of t...
Friday, October 14, 2022

A review of the BBC’s “The Normans” and “The Normans: The Complete Epic Saga”

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There’s a reason that 1066 is the best remembered year in  British history . In that year, the Normans invaded England . They are the last p...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Dark Ages”

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During the  Dark Ages , there were a number of invasions of what is today  “England.”  Some of them were before the state of  England  was c...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

A review of Neil Oliver’s “Vikings: The Real Warriors” (BBC)

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In the year 793, the Vikings attacked a monastery on the English island of Lindisfarne . It was the beginning of the Viking invasion of Engl...
Friday, May 22, 2020

A review of “The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown”

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“The great revolutions that had happened, in manners and in property, had paved the way, by imperceptible yet sure degrees, for as great a r...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A review of “Queen Victoria's Empire” (PBS Empires)

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“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Giving Congress the power to coin money was a break with British precedents

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“The coining of money is in all states the act of the sovereign power; for the reason just mentioned, that it's value may be known on...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

What's the difference between the presidency and the prior British monarchy?

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“The supreme executive power of these kingdoms is vested by our laws in a single person, the king or queen : for it matters not to which...

How did the Founding Fathers use Blackstone's writings about the monarchy?

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“The office of president is treated with levity and intimated to be a machine calculated for state pageantry. Suffer me to view the comma...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Habeas Corpus Act and the English Bill of Rights influenced our Constitution

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“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may r...
Friday, June 15, 2018

A review of David Starkey's “Monarchy” (U. K.)

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"God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King! God save the King ! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to rei...

When King John signed the Magna Carta, it was like signing a surrender document …

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“No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed , nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, exce...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

The Petition of Right influenced the United States Bill of Rights

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“The history of  Great Britain  is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us  many useful lessons . We may...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

A review of David Starkey's “Elizabeth”

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“However, considering the reign of queen Elizabeth in a great and political view, we have no reason to regret many subsequent alterations in...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

A review of David Starkey's “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”

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Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to discuss them tastefully, there's no way to take them ou...
Monday, November 30, 2015

A review of Neil Oliver's “A History of Scotland”

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"That the Two Kingdoms of  Scotland and England  shall upon the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof and forever after be  U...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A review of Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”

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"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Cromwell: The movie that brings the English Civil War to life

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The English Civil War was a war over ideas, much like the American Revolution ... The British historian  Simon Schama  once said that th...