17th Century history
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A perpetual disturbance? The history of the previous question
After ‘chaos’ in the House of Commons on Monday night, our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, discusses the ‘previous question’ motion……
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Jennifer Wells, Crafting empire: republican imperialism and parliamentary policy 1647-60’
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar is back for a new term. Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the…
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Magna Carta in Coventry
The wonderful Public Catalogue Foundation website discussion strand, Art Detective, has been hosting a discussion about this picture at St…
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Scotland and the Jacobean Union of 1604-7
In the latest of our series on English-Scottish parliamentary relations throughout the centuries, guest blogger Dr Alan MacDonald (University of…
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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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More 17th century diplomatic incidents: the King of Denmark and his unfortunate gesture to the hero of the Armada
Dr Ben Coates, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-60 section, relates a less-than-diplomatic exchange in 1606 between King Christian…
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Who should sit on the throne?: the Commons, Lords and William & Mary, 1689
325 years ago today Parliament offered the crown to William and Mary, along with the Declaration of Rights (later to…