Articles by History of Parliament
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A tribute to Harry Cobb
The History of Parliament staff were sad to hear about the recent death of Harry Cobb, Clerk of the Records…
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Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Gary Rivett, Information regimes and governance in the English Revolution: Parliament and the case of the Committee for Plundered Ministers
At the last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of the academic year, Dr Gary Rivett (York St John University) spoke…
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Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: Jason Frost, ‘Church, State and Parliament in the Late Eighteenth Century in the Martyrdom Day Sermons of 30th January’
Reporting back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar, Jason Frost (University of Westminster) spoke on ‘Church, State and…
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’
In the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) spoke on ‘‘Big data’…
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Parliament and the Gulf War in 1991
In today’s guest blog, Teemu Hakkinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), who has researched the royal prerogative in decisions to go…