Medieval
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What might have been: The Sweating Sickness and the Representation of the County of Cornwall in Henry VII’s first Parliament of 1485-6
In today’s blog, Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our Commons 1461-1504 project, looks back to 1485, when a sudden epidemic…
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The true Queen of the West
May marks Local & Community History Month and kick-starts a new Local History blog series at the History of Parliament.…
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Children and Parliament in Medieval England
Continuing the theme of children and Parliament following Helen Sunderland’s blog about schoolgirls’ visits to the House of Parliament, 1880-1918…
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Ancient Britain, the Mother of Parliaments?
St George’s Day seems an appropriate moment to invoke John Bright’s famous, and much misunderstood, statement of 1865 that ‘England…
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Social Distancing – Medieval Style: a Petition of the Commons in the Parliament of 1439
As discussions turn to how Parliament should operate during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our 1461-1504 section,…
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Was the battle of Towton as bloody as all that?
Today is the anniversary of the battle of Towton, a violent battle in 1461 which resulted in Edward IV claiming…
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Ambassadors in the late middle ages
March’s medieval offering is from Senior Research Fellow, Dr Charles Moreton, who is currently working on our 1461-1504 project. Charles…
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Making the most of a parhelion: the earl of March and the battle of Mortimer’s Cross
In our latest blog Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow for the Commons 1461-1504 project, looks back to this date in…
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Yorkist Parliaments, but not at York
At the beginning of this week, the government sparked debate by announcing the possibility of relocating the House of Lords…
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The 14th century origins of the parliamentary impeachment process
In light of recent proceedings in the United States, in our latest blog Dr Charles Moreton, senior research fellow with…
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A turning-point in the Wars of the Roses: the attainders of the Coventry Parliament
In our latest blog Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow in our 1461-1504 project, discusses the short Lancastrian parliament of…
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A new beginning? Stubbs’s ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295
The final piece in our Named Parliaments series represents the earliest Parliament we’ve discussed, the ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295. Dr…