Parliamentary Life
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: The political origins and impact of Commons select committees: some 20th century case studies
Dr Philip Aylett (House of Commons/Queen Mary, University of London) reports back from his ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar paper…
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Medieval clerks of the parliament – part 2
Last week Dr Hannes Kleineke blogged on medieval parliamentary clerks. In his companion piece, guest blogger Dr Euan Roger, Royal…
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Medieval clerks of the parliament – part 1
The summer recess in parliament is not just a chance for MPs to take a break, but some peace and…
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Impeachment in the early seventeenth century
After an all-night debate, the Brazilian Senate voted today to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. Impeachment was once…
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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…