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Parliament and St George’s Day in the early seventeenth century
Following previous blogs to mark St David’s Day and St Patrick’s Day, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-1629 Section…
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Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women
As part of our Women and Parliament blog series to mark the centenary of the first women gaining the vote…
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MPs as art collectors in the 1650s
As the Royal Academy’s Charles I: King and Collector exhibition comes to a close, Andrew Barclay, Senior Research Fellow with…
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Parliament, Politics and People: The politics of impressment, 1639-41: a Gloucestershire microhistory
Today’s blog is a summary from Sonia Tycko, PhD. candidate from Harvard University about the paper that she presented, as part…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)
In honour of St. David, the patron saint of Wales and St. David’s Day today, Dr Stephen Roberts, our Director,…
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James I and his favourites: sex and power at the Jacobean court
As LGBT History Month draws to a close Dr Paul M. Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-1629 Section discusses the nature…
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The importance of royal pardons in Restoration England.
The UK is celebrating the centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed some…
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1624 Proceedings: The House of Commons
Today Philip Baker, former Research Fellow of the History of Parliament and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, explains the background…
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Reporting the House of Lords 1660-1832
The latest blog from the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles reports back from last month’s conference of the British Society…
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Art, power and money: the sale of Charles I’s art collection
On Tuesday of this week – 30th January – we observed the anniversary of the regicide, the execution of Charles…