Articles by Andrew Thrush
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Impeachment in the early seventeenth century
After an all-night debate, the Brazilian Senate voted today to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. Impeachment was once…
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John Ramsay: The boy who saved a king
Today in 1600 James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) survived the Gowrie conspiracy thanks to the quick…
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Fighting in foreign wars: fears over English Catholics in the Netherlands’ war with Spain
Events in Iraq and Syria have led Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the Lords 1603-1660 section, to reflect on a…
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1614: The Beginning of the Crisis of Parliaments
Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the Lords 1603-60 section, describes events in the ‘Addled Parliament’, which was meeting 400 years…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Dr Andrew Thrush, ‘The Fall of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and the revival of impeachment, 1621’
Our own Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the House of Lords 1603-1660 section, discusses his recent ‘Parliaments, politics and people’…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Andrew Thrush, (History of Parliament) ‘The 1621 Parliament and the Origins of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords’
Dr Andrew Thrush editor of the History of Parliament’s 1603-1660 House of Lords section recently addressed our ‘Parliaments, Politics and…
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A royal wedding for Valentine’s Day, 1613
A romantic blog for Valentine’s day; four hundred years ago today James VI & I’s daughter Elizabeth married the Elector…