Medieval
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Medieval MP of the Month: The sea hawk – Robert Wenyngton alias Cane
June’s medieval MP of the month is the swashbuckling Robert Wenyngton of Dartmouth. Dr Hannes Kleineke, of our House of…
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Medieval MP of the Month: George Ashby
For this month’s installment from our House of Commons 1422-1461 Section we hear from Dr Simon Payling about poet and…
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Medieval MP of the Month: ‘Please Sir, can I have one more?’ The marriages and murders of the Harcourt brothers of Oxfordshire ?
Further tales of murder and scandal from Dr Hannes Kleineke for April’s medieval MP, or rather MPs of the Month.…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Walter Rich – a tryst gone wrong?
Rather appropriately on Valentine’s Day, February’s Medieval MP of the month blog is concerned with affairs of the heart (among…
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Sir John Popham: A Speaker-Elect Makes a Quick Escape from the Parliamentary Turmoil caused by England’s Precipitous Exit from Europe
In light of the recent controversy surrounding the current Speaker of the House of Commons and his position on Brexit,…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Santa Claus in Parliament
Here’s a seasonal offering from Hannes Kleineke of the House of Commons 1422-1504 Section for our Medieval MP of Month……
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Medieval MP of the Month: An MP Struck by Lightning
Today we hear from House of Commons 1422-1504 Section Editor, Dr Linda Clark for the next instalment in our series ‘Medieval…
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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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Medieval MP of the Month: Sir Christopher Talbot
Here’s the next installment in our series ‘Medieval MP of the Month’. Today we here from Senior Research Fellow, Dr…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Robert Hill (c.1391-1444) of Shilston, Devon.
Today’s blog is the second installment from our ‘Medieval MP of the Month’ series. In this post we hear from…
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Violent times? MPs as victims of murder in the mid-fifteenth century
Today Dr Simon Payling of the 1422-1504 Section explores the murders of MPs in the mid-fifteenth century… The completion of…