George Grenville

  • From Jockeys to Ministers: How Horse Racing Shaped Rockingham’s First Ministry

    From Jockeys to Ministers: How Horse Racing Shaped Rockingham’s First Ministry

    In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, we welcome Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri from the University of Aberdeen, who considers the importance of horse racing in the formation of the Rockingham administration of 1765. The structure of mid-eighteenth-century politics…

  • Background to the American Revolution

    Background to the American Revolution

    As part of a new infrequent series on the American Revolution and its connection to Parliament, Dr Robin Eagles explores the immediate background to the Revolution, and early Parliamentary debates surrounding it in February 1775. At the beginning of 1775,…

  • ‘Very grievous and unconstitutional’? The repeal of the (American) Stamp Act (1766)

    250 years ago this month Parliament was debating the fate of the Stamp Act – the law which proved dangerously unpopular in Britain’s American colonies. In the first of two blogs on the issue, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow…

  • ‘The Story of Parliament’: The office of Prime Minister in the 18th Century

    Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the anniversary of Simon de Montfort’s parliament in 1265. The book is a brief introduction to the full 750 years of…