Articles by Simon Payling
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A turning-point in the Wars of the Roses: the attainders of the Coventry Parliament
In our latest blog Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow in our 1461-1504 project, discusses the short Lancastrian parliament of…
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A new beginning? Stubbs’s ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295
The final piece in our Named Parliaments series represents the earliest Parliament we’ve discussed, the ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295. Dr…
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The battle of Ludford Bridge
Today on our new blog page The Commons in the Wars of the Roses, Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow…
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Conversations with a medieval MP: Sir Thomas Billing and the Pastons
This month’s Medieval MP of the Month is highly esteemed fifteenth century lawyer, Sir Thomas Billing. Here’s Dr Simon Payling…
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Medieval MP of the Month: George Ashby
For this month’s installment from our House of Commons 1422-1461 Section we hear from Dr Simon Payling about poet and…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Sir Christopher Talbot
Here’s the next installment in our series ‘Medieval MP of the Month’. Today we here from Senior Research Fellow, Dr…
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Violent times? MPs as victims of murder in the mid-fifteenth century
Today Dr Simon Payling of the 1422-1504 Section explores the murders of MPs in the mid-fifteenth century… The completion of…
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Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century
2018 is the centennial anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 under the terms of which, for the…
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European diplomacy: the ‘double monarchy’ of England and France envisaged in the treaty of Troyes of 1420
Today, the new Prime Minister Theresa May makes her first diplomatic trip to meet her counterparts in Germany and France. …