Articles by History of Parliament
-
Parliament and Bannockburn
In the run up to September’s Scottish independence referendum, we’re publishing a series of blogposts on the relationship between England…
-
Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Harshan Kumarasingham on ‘The quest for “Eastminster”: the British parliamentary system and the foundation of independent south Asia’
Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons reports back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… The ‘Parliaments, Politics…
-
Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The 16th Century ‘Parliamentary Mind’
Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons reports back from our first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of 2014… This…
-
Recording speech in early modern England: Parliament, preachers and the Putney debates
In his work on the 1624 Parliamentary Diaries, Philip Baker deals with the difficulties in deciphering 17th Century record keeping…
-
High Speed 2: The Victorian Perspective
After yesterday’s speech from Ed Balls at the Labour party conference, the High Speed 2 rail link is in the…