Military history
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Chatham and the failure of English Politics
350 years ago this week the British navy suffered a disaster after the Dutch Raid on the Medway. In this…
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MPs in World War I: William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861-1917)
In the latest of our blogs on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr Kathryn Rix marks the centenary…
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‘Absolutely our best officer’: Valentine Fleming (1882-1917)
In the latest of our blogs on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr Kathryn Rix marks the centenary…
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Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar: The political ideas and parliamentary career of Thomas Scot, regicide, 1645-1660
Today Dr Alan Marshall (Bath Spa University) reports back from his last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar paper: The political…
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A ‘Glorious’ Revolution?
This week the BBC’s new series ‘British History’s Biggest fibs’ tackles some of the myths surrounding the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The Rhetoric of Representation: Scottish Parliamentary Commissions 1638-41
Our ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar returns tonight with a new term’s programme – so to bring you up to…
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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,…