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The Love Life of Oliver Cromwell
In the second of his posts exploring the popular reputation of the lord protector, Dr Patrick Little, senior research fellow…
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Plots, petitions, prelates and popery: Parliament and the tumults of December 1641
December 1641 was a month of high tension in Parliament, as Dr Vivienne Larminie from our Commons 1640-1660 project explores……
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Disability at Court in Early Modern England
As the UK marks Disability History Month over the next few weeks, in today’s blog Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of…
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The Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613
On our blog today Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of our House of Lords 1558-1603 project, takes a look at an…
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What price a peerage? John Roper and the Jacobean trade in titles and offices
Accusations of political sleaze are on the rise again, but the concept of government insiders profiting from the system is…
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Immigrants and refugees at Westminster: the foreign ancestry of mid-17th century MPs
With refugee crises and immigration back in the news, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, considers…
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‘The Downe-fall of Dagon’: the post-Reformation campaign against Cheapside Cross
The recent trend of attacks on statues with uncomfortable moral or historical associations is nothing new; Dr Paul Hunneyball of…
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Red Streak: cider-making and drinking in Cromwellian Herefordshire
As we contemplate the further lifting of Covid restrictions on hospitality venues, Dr Patrick Little of our Commons 1640-1660 project…
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Religion, relief and the ‘slaughtered saints’: foreign aid in the seventeenth century
As modern-day discussions on how best to help nations across the world fight the COVID-19 pandemic continue, in today’s blog…
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Edward, Lord Stafford and the 1621 parliamentary protections scandal
Four hundred years ago this month, in an unprecedented move forced on it by circumstances, Parliament adjourned for more than…
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An Indispensable Member? Legal expertise in the Long Parliament, ‘an ancient lawyer’ and civil war intimidation
In the past, as with now, it was not uncommon to find those trained in the practice of law seated…
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‘What a theatre is the House of Commons!’
In today’s blog we hear from the History of Parliament’s director Dr Paul Seaward, continuing our recent theme of Parliament…