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  • Background to the American Revolution

    Background to the American Revolution

    Robin Eagles

    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,…

  • ‘A frenzy of quitting’: the art of resigning in the 18th century

    ‘A frenzy of quitting’: the art of resigning in the 18th century

    Charles Littleton

    In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton considers two episodes in the mid-18th century when governments were subject to mass resignations… Between 5 and 7 July 2022, over 60 members of Boris Johnson’s government resigned, the…

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

    Robin Eagles

    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…

  • Prime Ministers’ Funerals

    Emma Peplow

    A look back at the different Prime Ministers who received public funerals… Tomorrow former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral. Public funerals for Prime Ministers have been fairly rare in recent years, but Baroness…