Articles by History of Parliament
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A Westminster Boy Made Good: Charles Barry (1795-1860)
In this guest post, previously published on the Victorian Commons, Dr Caroline Shenton, formerly the Director of the Parliamentary Archives…
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‘of all others most desirable’: Pitt the Younger and elections for Cambridge
From the onset of his lengthy political career, William Pitt the Younger had his eyes fixed on representing his alma…
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The Speaker’s House and the Evolution of the Speakership, 1794–1834
At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on 6 May 2025, Dr Murray Tremellen of York Museums Trust will…
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James Lamont (1828-1913), Arctic explorer and scientist
Our 1832-68 House of Commons project has researched many MPs who were better known for their exploits outside Parliament than…
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Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism
In this article our former colleague Dr Henry Miller explores the origins of the phrase ‘One Nation’, which is famously…
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From Greenwich to the green benches: Alfred Rhodes Bristow (1818-1875)
The ongoing research of our House of Commons, 1832-1868 project has found a surprising number of MPs who came from…
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Richard Cobden and his constituencies
In this guest post, originally published on the Victorian Commons website, Professor Simon Morgan of Leeds Beckett University, the principal investigator…
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Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ and the perils of Lords ‘reform’
In this guest post, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons of Lincoln University, looks at a constitutional issue from the 1650s with obvious…
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Approaching the ‘great Court of Justice now sitting’: petitioning and parliamentary memory in the Long Parliament (1640-1642)
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Ellen Paterson, Keble College, University of Oxford.…
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Scrutinising Wartime Britain: The Commons Committees on National Expenditure 1917-20 and 1939-45
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Philip Aylett. On 25 February, Philip will discuss…
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Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space
On Friday 14 March 2025, a one-day conference, Lived Experiences of Westminster Parliament in History: People, Sociability, Communities, & Space,…
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Producing, Performing and Curating Radicalism: How was radical material culture produced, used and curated in early 19th century Britain?
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Caitlin Kitchener. On 28 January Caitlin will…