Parliamentary Life
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The honourable member for Lambeth North, I presume? Henry Morton Stanley’s parliamentary career
On the anniversary of his birth on 28 January 1841, Dr. Kathryn Rix examines the lesser-known parliamentary career of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley. The journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley is famously associated with the phrase, ‘Dr. Livingstone, I…
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Colonel Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaires: An introduction
Priscilla Baines has recently published a new book, ‘Colonel Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaire: Members of Parliament 1885-1918’. Her work analyses the replies to questionnaires sent in 1936 by the History of Parliament’s founder, Josiah Wedgwood, to gain personal reflections from his…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Richard Toye, ‘The rhetorical culture of the House of Commons in the interwar years’
Dr Kathryn Rix of The Victorian Commons reports back on the latest ‘parliaments, politics and people’ seminar The final paper of 2012 for the ‘Parliament, Politics and People’ seminar was given by Professor Richard Toye, of the University of Exeter,…
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6 December, 1648: Pride’s Purge
Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the HOP’s House of Commons 1640-60 project, explains the importance of “Pride’s Purge” which took place on this day in 1648. Since the victories by the New Model Army which brought the first civil war…
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Researching the House of Commons: Parliamentary Diaries
In our first blog on the methods our academics use for their research, Dr Vivienne Larminie discusses that great resource for political historians and journalists that can still cause a sensation today: The private diary. Akin to contemporary minutes of…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar, 20 November 2012 Keith Stapylton (UCL): ‘The problem of privilege in early Stuart parliaments’
Dr Robin Eagles reports back on the latest ‘parliaments, politics and people’ seminar Following on from Caroline Shenton’s presentation a fortnight ago, the Parliaments seminar returned to the early seventeenth century this week with a paper by Keith Stapylton examining…