History of Parliament Trust
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Obituary for Roland Thorne
We were sorry to hear of the death of Roland Thorne at the age of 79. Roland was the Editor…
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Review of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! After all of the staff changes at the end of 2017 we started the new…
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Round-table session: Digital humanities and political history: in memoriam Valerie Cromwell
At our first ‘Parliaments, Politics & People’ seminar of the new academic year, Dr Hannes Kleineke, Dr Ruth Ahnert, Professor…
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Life before Parliament: the formative years of Josiah C. Wedgwood, 1872-1904
Last night at the new Newcastle-under-Lyme Library the History of Parliament’s Sammy Sturgess and Emma Peplow, along with British Academy / Wolfson…
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Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood: new HLF funded project
Today’s blog is the first in the series about our activities in Staffordshire as part of our HLF funded project,…
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Wikidata, British Politicians and the History of Parliament Trust
Today’s post is a guest blog from Andrew Gray of University College London. Andrew explains his Wikidata project which now…
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Voice and Vote: Celebrating 100 Years of Votes for Women – a guidebook
Dr Paul Seaward is one of the editors of the “Voice & Vote guidebook” to accompany the UK Parliament Vote…
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A Fighting Life: Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood, founder of the History of Parliament project
Today we hear from our Public Engagement Officer, Sammy Sturgess about our recent event in Westminster to launch our activities…
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A tribute to former Director of the History of Parliament Trust, Valerie Cromwell
In this blog our current Director, Dr Stephen Roberts and Editor of the Commons 1422-1504 project, Dr Linda Clark pay…
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Welcome to the History of Parliament blog!
Here we share posts about our current research projects, wider parliamentary history, highlights from our events, seminars and conferences, and…
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Introducing…our new Director
Today’s blog is the first from Stephen Roberts in his new position as Director of the History of Parliament… It…
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Review of the year 2017
It’s been another hectic, but excellent year here at the History of Parliament. We have been making many organisational changes…