Legal history
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Disregarding the Past: The Problems of Pardoning Homosexual Offences
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, the speaker from the previous session in collaboration with the…
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Tobacco Fraud and the Prorogation of April 1707
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley, senior research fellow in the Lords 1715-90 section, considers…
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Conversations with a medieval MP: Sir Thomas Billing and the Pastons
This month’s Medieval MP of the Month is highly esteemed fifteenth century lawyer, Sir Thomas Billing. Here’s Dr Simon Payling…
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The Six Acts and Censorship of the Press
Today we round off our Peterloo blog series with Dr Katie Carpenter’s second post about the legislation that was rushed…
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The Inquest into the death of John Lees
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s third piece, which considers the inquest…
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Alternative uses for the palace of Westminster: the early 17th-century picture
With the palace of Westminster requiring a major restoration programme, and some people suggesting that Parliament should permanently relocate to…
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Medieval MP of the Month: The sea hawk – Robert Wenyngton alias Cane
June’s medieval MP of the month is the swashbuckling Robert Wenyngton of Dartmouth. Dr Hannes Kleineke, of our House of…
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Commission impossible? Deciphering job titles in History of Parliament biographies (part 1)
In the first of an occasional series, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-29 section considers some of the unlikely-sounding…
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Hansard at Huddersfield: Making democracy more searchable
Today’s post is a guest blog from Lesley Jeffries of the University of Huddersfield. Lesley explains the Hansard at Huddersfield…
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From celebrity to outcast: William Bankes MP (1786-1855)
Today’s blog is the second of three posts to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. In this blog we hear from Dr…
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Legislating for the United Kingdom’s four nations in the age of reform, 1830-1852
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from James Smith, a doctoral candidate…