Articles by Robin Eagles
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“Contrary to the fundamental laws of nature”? The passage of the Declaratory Act, March 1766
250 years ago this week Parliament passed the ‘Declaratory Act’, aimed at limiting the damage of the earlier repeal of…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: The office of Prime Minister in the 18th Century
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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Two battles and a siege: Sheriffmuir and Preston, 12-14 November 1715
300 years ago the battles of Sheriffmuir and Preston signalled the effective end of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Dr Robin…
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A tribute to Professor Paul Langford FBA
Our director, Dr Paul Seaward, and Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section remember…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Eliza Hartrich, ‘Influencing Parliament in 15th-century England: some observations on “The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye”‘
Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section reports back from our final ‘Parliaments, Politics…
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The ‘White Warfare of the South’: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition and the First World War
This week the country is marking the 100th anniversary of Britain’s entry into the First World War. As Dr Robin…
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Remembering Culloden
On 16 April 1746, the battle of Culloden brought to a close the last serious attempt to restore the exiled…