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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…