Parliamentary Life
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Lockdown Entertainment: Medieval MPs and Books
Recent government lockdown measures have seen many people embrace new hobbies and pastimes to fill their days, including reading books.…
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‘As in your wisdom you shall think meet’: Remote working in Parliament in the early modern period
In this special collaborative blog, members of the History of Parliament’s two House of Lords sections, Dr Andrew Thrush, editor…
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Breaching the guidelines: clerical MPs in the mid-seventeenth century
As the country grapples with interpreting the rules of the Covid-19 lockdown, Dr Vivienne Larminie of our Commons 1640-1660 section…
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A tribute to Ted Graham, MP and Labour peer
In today’s blog, our Oral History Project lead, Dr Emma Peplow, pays tribute to Lord Graham of Edmonton, who was…
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Early modern Parliament and Coffee
The History of Parliament team is very fond of a cup of coffee to help power through a day of…
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Women in early modern parliamentary politics
Over the last few weeks we have been marking Women’s History Month. Continuing the discussion of women’s parliamentary history, Dr…
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Ambassadors in the late middle ages
March’s medieval offering is from Senior Research Fellow, Dr Charles Moreton, who is currently working on our 1461-1504 project. Charles…
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Sitting at Christmas: getting business done, 1643
In a previous blog our director, Dr Stephen Roberts, explored legislation by which parliamentarians of the 1640s tried to promote…
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A new beginning? Stubbs’s ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295
The final piece in our Named Parliaments series represents the earliest Parliament we’ve discussed, the ‘Model’ Parliament of 1295. Dr…
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“Windy music & heat in the House” The failure to reform the House of Lords in 1719
In the spring of 1719 the government introduced a measure for reforming the House of Lords. By its provisions the…
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‘The King’ and I
Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of the 1461-1504 section, reflects on the experience of acting as a historical adviser for the…
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Bats and Devils: Henry VI’s ‘seasonally-named’ parliaments
Rather appropriately for our Halloween blog offering, we hear from Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our House of Commons 1461-1504…