Articles by History of Parliament
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Bolingbroke’s Reflections upon Exile
For our latest blog @GeorgianLords welcomes Dr Max Skjönsberg (St Andrews) offering some insights into the early philosophical writings of…
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Towards a sonic history of Chartism: Music, sound and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from Dr David Kennerley, a Leverhulme…
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?Legislating Homosexuality: Codification, Empire and the Commonwealth
The final blog in our trio for LGBT+ History Month comes from our Public Engagement Officer, Sammy Sturgess. She considers…
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Legislating for the United Kingdom’s four nations in the age of reform, 1830-1852
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from James Smith, a doctoral candidate…
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Electoral Firsts in the 1918 Election: Event Review
Today we hear from our undergraduate intern from the History department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Matthew Anderson. For…
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From Parliamentary Politics to Authoritarianism: A Reflection on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Ahead of this evening’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Evan Fowler, associate fellow of…
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Sir John Popham: A Speaker-Elect Makes a Quick Escape from the Parliamentary Turmoil caused by England’s Precipitous Exit from Europe
In light of the recent controversy surrounding the current Speaker of the House of Commons and his position on Brexit,…
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Review of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! After all of the staff changes at the end of 2017 we started the new…
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Reflections on the Vote 100 project and the Lady Astor Statue project #Astor100
The final installment for the Women and Parliament blog series in 2018 is rather appropriately written by Linda Gilroy, former…
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Standing orders and precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Today’s blog from Glenn McKee follows his paper given at our Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar at the IHR last…
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Medieval MP of the Month: An MP Struck by Lightning
Today we hear from House of Commons 1422-1504 Section Editor, Dr Linda Clark for the next instalment in our series ‘Medieval…
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Robert Lowe and the University of London constituency
Ahead of tonight’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar we hear from Professor Jon Parry of Cambridge University who spoke at our special Parliaments,…