Military history
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 3: John Pym (1584-1643) the ubiquitous but invisible MP
In the third of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses writing the biography…
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MPs in World War I: Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington (1877-1916)
Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach had served as Tewkesbury’s Conservative MP for just over a decade when he was killed in action…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography. The Commons 1640-1660. Part 2: Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602-50), the self-fashioning MP
In the second of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the problems associated…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 1: Methods
In the first of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the History’s research…
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Parliament and the Gulf War in 1991
In today’s guest blog, Teemu Hakkinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), who has researched the royal prerogative in decisions to go…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Victoria Anker, ‘Parliament Ordinances and Remonstrances: legislative attacks on executive authority in the early 1640s’
At the second ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of the term Victoria Anker, from the University of Edinburgh, spoke on…
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The ‘Story of Parliament’: Civil War leaders
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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Two battles and a siege: Sheriffmuir and Preston, 12-14 November 1715
300 years ago the battles of Sheriffmuir and Preston signalled the effective end of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Dr Robin…
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After Agincourt: the life of Sir John Pennington
This past week we have been celebrating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (including the History of Parliament’s…
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‘The hero legislator of Uxbridge’: the Hon. Charles Thomas Mills (1887-1915)
100 years ago the Battle of Loos proved deadly for a third MP, as today marks the anniversary of the…