18th Century history
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Exploring parliamentary history through art
Today’s blog contains details of the Art UK online exhibitions that our researchers have curated during lockdown… The History of…
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Friends reunited? The end of the Whig Schism
In the summer of 1720 a schism that had divided the Whig Party into competing factions was finally healed. Dr…
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In search of Arcadia: visiting the 18th-century garden
Recent government restrictions paired with a bout of sunny weather have seen more of us head into the garden to…
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‘As in your wisdom you shall think meet’: Remote working in Parliament in the early modern period
In this special collaborative blog, members of the History of Parliament’s two House of Lords sections, Dr Andrew Thrush, editor…
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A Queen in Isolation: Mary Beatrice of Modena
On 7 May 1718, James II’s widow, Mary of Modena, died in exile at the palace of St Germain-en-Laye. Displaced…
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Early modern Parliament and Coffee
The History of Parliament team is very fond of a cup of coffee to help power through a day of…
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Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Open University: The Black and Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics, 1750-1850
We are pleased to announce that the History of Parliament Trust is participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership…
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‘Where the disease is desperate, the remedy must be so too’: debating the 1721 Quarantine Act
The latest blog for the Georgian Lords considers the topical issue of quarantine. In the 1720s the government was forced…
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The Princess Mother: Augusta, Princess of Wales, the power behind the throne?
Today, on International Women’s Day, Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our Lords 1715-1790 project, looks at the life of Augusta,…
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Exhibition review: Georgian Delights: Life during the Reign of George IV exhibition review
Last week Senior Research Fellow on the House of Lords 1715-90 project, Dr Stuart Handley, headed off on a field…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Max Skjönsberg from the University of Liverpool revisits his…