Military history
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Parliament and the Suez Crisis
Sixty years ago this week the Suez Crisis was in full swing and parliament was in uproar. Here we discuss…
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MPs in World War I: Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot (1872-1916)
100 years ago yesterday the Somme claimed another MP: Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot. Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, blogs…
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MPs in World War I: Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (1879-1916)
Yesterday we marked the death of Hon. Guy Victor Baring, who died on 15 September 1916. Another former occupant of the…
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‘Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor’: Thomas Michael Kettle (1880-1916)
Continuing our series of short biographies of the MPs who sadly lost their lives fighting in the First World War,…
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‘The thing is to get on with the War’: Duncan Frederick Campbell (1876-1916)
Our blog today returns to our series, all written by Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, of short biographies…
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David Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith: Liberals at war
Inspired by the political upheaval in many of our political parties after the Brexit vote, we’ve been looking this summer…
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‘At whose door must this resentment be laid?’ The Whig Schism of 1717
The fall-out from Brexit has caused considerable disarray in the British party system, and over the course of this summer…
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European diplomacy: the ‘double monarchy’ of England and France envisaged in the treaty of Troyes of 1420
Today, the new Prime Minister Theresa May makes her first diplomatic trip to meet her counterparts in Germany and France. …
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 4: Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the Parliament making, Parliament breaking MP
In the final of his four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses parliament’s most famous…