Conferences, Seminars and Events
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Review of the year 2013
As 2013 draws to an end, we’re looking back at another busy year at the History of Parliament, ready for another exciting year in 2014! Our five research sections have been busy as normal – not just researching but revising…
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‘Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments’ Conference for 2015
Following last week’s blogpost about our 2014 conference, ‘Parliaments and Minorities’, today we have published an advanced notice of an exciting conference for 2015. The year 2015 marks two anniversaries of enormous significance in the history of English, and British…
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‘Parliaments and Minorities’ conference in May 2014
Here at the History of Parliament, we have two exciting conferences coming up in 2014 and 2015. Here’s news of the first one: The History of Parliament Trust, in association with the Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck…
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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’ seminar paper on the link between the fall of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, and the Stuart parliament’s rediscovery…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Parliamentary oratory and images – a new approach to the study of late medieval and early modern political culture
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar returned for a new term with a paper given by three German scholars. Professor Dr Johannes Helmrath, Dr Jörg Feuchter and Anna-Maria Blank from Humbolt University, Berlin and Konstanz University are part of a…
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The ‘transformation’ of representation, 1386-1558
Last month, Dr Simon Payling spoke at the final ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar on the ‘Transformation of the Commons, 1386-1588’. Here is Simon’s summary of his paper… The paper described the changing composition of the Commons between the majority…
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David Magliocco, ‘Popularity, “popularity” and popularity: Pepys and popularity’
Dr Robin Eagles reports back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… The last Parliaments seminar returned to the middle years of the 17th century when David Magliocco, armed with an intriguing title, sought to delve into Samuel Pepys’…
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The History of Parliament lecture: Dr Amanda Foreman
The History of Parliament has held an annual lecture in Westminster for eight years, until last year Dr Amanda Foreman, author of ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’ and ‘A World on Fire’ was unfortunately delayed thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Not to…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Nigel Aston ‘Out of retirement: Lord Lansdowne and opposition politics in the 1790s’
At our last ‘parliaments, politics and people’ seminar, Dr Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) spoke on William Petty, Lord Lansdowne and his role as an opposition politician in the 1790s. He surveyed Lansdowne’s years after his term as Prime Minister…