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How Closely Related Were George I and Queen Anne?
Over on twitter this week we are marking the 300th anniversary of the death of Queen Anne and the Hanoverian…
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Scotland and the Jacobean Union of 1604-7
In the latest of our series on English-Scottish parliamentary relations throughout the centuries, guest blogger Dr Alan MacDonald (University of…
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Nolo episcopari
On Monday, the Church of England voted to allow women bishops for the first time. This prompted Matthew Kilburn, research…
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1614: The Beginning of the Crisis of Parliaments
Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the Lords 1603-60 section, describes events in the ‘Addled Parliament’, which was meeting 400 years…
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More 17th century diplomatic incidents: the King of Denmark and his unfortunate gesture to the hero of the Armada
Dr Ben Coates, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-60 section, relates a less-than-diplomatic exchange in 1606 between King Christian…
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Who should sit on the throne?: the Commons, Lords and William & Mary, 1689
325 years ago today Parliament offered the crown to William and Mary, along with the Declaration of Rights (later to…
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Lord Arundell of Wardour: How to cause a diplomatic incident with a false beard
Dr Paul Hunneyball, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-1660 section, shares the colourful Continental exploits of one of his…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Dr Andrew Thrush, ‘The Fall of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and the revival of impeachment, 1621’
Our own Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the House of Lords 1603-1660 section, discusses his recent ‘Parliaments, politics and people’…
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Recording speech in early modern England: Parliament, preachers and the Putney debates
In his work on the 1624 Parliamentary Diaries, Philip Baker deals with the difficulties in deciphering 17th Century record keeping…