Military history
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Medieval MP of the Month September 2019: Henry Langton and the Battle of Blore Heath
Here’s Dr Hannes Kleineke of our House of Commons 1422-1504 project with September’s medieval MP of month, Henry Langton. THE…
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Medieval MP of the Month: John Howard, from the Battle of Castillon to the Battle of Bosworth
Our Medieval MP of the Month series continues with John Howard, one of the only two known soldiers to have…
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Sir John Popham: A Speaker-Elect Makes a Quick Escape from the Parliamentary Turmoil caused by England’s Precipitous Exit from Europe
In light of the recent controversy surrounding the current Speaker of the House of Commons and his position on Brexit,…
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Samuel Peploe: scourge of the Jacobites?
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley, examines the career of the fierce anti-Jacobite clergyman, Samuel…
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No deal: Pride’s Purge and retreat from settlement
As MPs prepare to vote over whether or not to accept the Brexit deal negotiated by Theresa May, we have…
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Peace at Last?
Earlier this autumn saw the 80th anniversary of the Munich agreement, marked by a ‘Peace for our Time’ blog from…
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‘For our honour’s sake we dare not keep them out’: Josiah Wedgwood and the Jews in Nazi Europe
Ahead of our conference and public lecture at Keele University on 22 November to mark the 75th anniversary of…
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Crucible of revolution: Parliament, Putney, and the politics of settlement in the Autumn of 1647
Ahead of tonight’s special edition of our IHR Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar in aid of UK Parliament Week (‘One person,…
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Gerald Arbuthnot MP and the Parliamentary War Memorial
Since 2014 Dr. Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons, 1832-1945 project, has been blogging about the 24…
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MPs in World War I: the Hon. Charles Henry Lyell (1875-1918)
Last month we marked the centenary of the last serving MP to be killed in action during the First World…