James I to Restoration
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Three Bog-Standard Cromwellian Elections: Co. Cork and its boroughs in 1654
We’re continuing our monthly local history case-studies in 2021 and for the first locality this year we’re turning our attention…
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Did the Puritans ban Christmas dinner?
The Puritans are often accused of banning Christmas, and although the House of Commons did sit on Christmas Day during…
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Cancelling Christmas? William Prynne, kill-joy and martyr, and the onslaught on ‘pagan Saturnalia’
With the government currently recommending scaled-back Christmas celebrations, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our…
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Discourses of Freedom and Slavery, 1640-60
Today we return to our recent series from History of Parliament director Dr Stephen Roberts, who has been discussing parliamentary…
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Slavery, the Caribbean and English Liberties, 1620-40
Today’s blog is the first in a three-part series from History of Parliament director Dr Stephen Roberts about parliamentary involvement…
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Q. When is a Shire not a Shire? A. When it’s a Stewartry! Kirkcudbright in the 1650s
Continuing our series on Scotland, Dr Patrick Little, senior research fellow for the House of Commons 1640-1660 project, explores the…
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‘None can sit here but a natural liegeman’: Scots at Westminster in the Jacobean era
As a prelude to this month’s spotlight on politics in Scotland to mark St Andrew’s Day, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant…
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Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland: the brains behind the Gunpowder Plot?
As we approach Bonfire Night on 5 November, Dr Paul Hunneyball of our Lords 1558-1603 project ponders whether we should…
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‘Cakes, Cheese and Zeal’: Puritan Banbury, the Fiennes family and civil war radicalism
In today’s blog Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-1660 project, returns to our local history exploration of…
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Catholic Forfeitures during the English Revolution: Parliament and the Role of Sequestration Agents
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Eilish Gregory at the University of Reading. She…
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Gap years and study abroad: 17th century MPs and the legacy of a foreign education
As international travel continues to be unpredictable and as universities and colleges start a new academic year in uncertain times,…
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Electoral change in South-East Wales in the 1640s: the Recruiter Elections in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire
This month, as part of our local history blog series, we’re looking into the parliamentary history of a number of…