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Protesting MPs: Peterloo and its aftermath
The Green Party MP Caroline Lucas is due to appear in court tomorrow after her involvement in anti-fracking protests during…
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The House of Commons and Foreign Policy: Lord North and Yorktown
During this afternoon’s Prime Minister’s Questions the fall-out from last Thursday’s dramatic Commons vote on Syria continued. David Cameron admitted…
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Thomas Potter, MP for St Germans, Aylesbury and Okehampton
Dr Robin Eagles looks at the colourful life of Thomas Potter, who was first elected to parliament in the summer…
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Impeachments and the British Parliament
Every year, the History of Parliament holds two competitions for schools and one for university students, for the best undergraduate dissertation…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Nigel Aston ‘Out of retirement: Lord Lansdowne and opposition politics in the 1790s’
At our last ‘parliaments, politics and people’ seminar, Dr Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) spoke on William Petty, Lord Lansdowne…
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The Treaty of Paris, John Wilkes and North Briton Number 45
On 23 April 1763, John Wilkes published his famous ‘North Briton No.45’, attacking George III and his Prime Minister, the…
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Parliamentarians in the courts…
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Old Bailey Online (happy anniversary!) Dr Ruth Paley, editor of the Lords 1660-1832…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Andrew Thompson (Queens’ Cambridge) ‘George II, Power and Parliament’
Dr Robin Eagles reports back from our latest ‘Parliament, politics and people‘ seminar… Neither of the first two Hanoverian monarchs…