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The 14th century origins of the parliamentary impeachment process

History of Parliament

January 16, 2020

In light of recent proceedings in the United States, in our latest blog Dr Charles Moreton, senior research fellow with our medieval project, House of Commons 1461-1504, discusses the historic origins of impeachment in English parliaments… Thanks to the actions…
Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Robin McCallum, ‘English Towns & Parliamentary Representation, 1295-1350’

History of Parliament

December 15, 2015

At our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar Robin McCullum, of Queen’s University Belfast, gave a paper on ‘English Towns & Parliamentary Representation, 1295-1350’. Here Robin reports back on his paper… The overarching aim of this paper was to explore…