Parliamentary Life
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’
In the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) spoke on ‘‘Big data’…
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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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Speaking in Parliament: History, Politics, Rhetoric – Conference 2016, Call for Papers released
In 2016 the History of Parliament will hold, in partnership with Queen Mary, University of London, a conference focussing on…
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The long-lived charter: Magna Carta’s 800 year legacy
800 years ago today, Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede. In the last of our series celebrating the anniversaries of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Gwilym Dodd, ‘Common petitions; Commons’ petitions; whose petitions? The supplicatory discourse of Parliament, c.1340-1450′
‘Parliaments, politics and people’ returned for the summer term with Gwilym Dodd’s paper on petitions in medieval parliaments. Dr Paul…
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How does it feel to be a new MP?
This week at Westminster MPs elected for the first time will still be finding their feet. With such a large…
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Proceedings in Parliament 1624: the road to publication
In the third in our series of blogs marking the release of the Commons’ proceedings of the 1624 Parliament – with…
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1624: The Last Parliament of James I
In the second in our series of blogs marking the release of the Commons’ proceedings of the 1624 Parliament –…
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Publication of Proceedings in Parliament 1624: The House of Commons
Today, on the anniversary of its opening 391 years ago, the History of Parliament is proud to announce the initial…