Religious history
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Pride of place: chief ministers and their houses in early modern England
Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent convalescence at Chequers, his official rural retreat, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1558-1603…
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A Queen in Isolation: Mary Beatrice of Modena
On 7 May 1718, James II’s widow, Mary of Modena, died in exile at the palace of St Germain-en-Laye. Displaced…
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Ancient Britain, the Mother of Parliaments?
St George’s Day seems an appropriate moment to invoke John Bright’s famous, and much misunderstood, statement of 1865 that ‘England…
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Archbishop Laud’s secret ‘misfortunes’: decoding sexual identity in the seventeenth century
Continuing the theme of LGBTQ+ History Month, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of the Lords 1558-1603 section, explores the problem…
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Making the most of a parhelion: the earl of March and the battle of Mortimer’s Cross
In our latest blog Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow for the Commons 1461-1504 project, looks back to this date in…
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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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The ‘Other’ House of Windsor
As our House of Lords 1604-1629 project nears completion, Dr Paul Hunneyball takes a look at one of the lesser-known…
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The ‘Barebones Parliament’: an assembly of the saints, 1653
Today, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons 1640-1660 Section, continues our Named Parliaments series with the…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The Political and Religious Origins of the 1563 Witchcraft Act
Ahead of this evening’s session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics, and People seminar, Lewis Brennen, PhD candidate at the University…
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The Exclusion Parliaments
This blog from Paul Seaward, British Academy/Wolfson Research Professor at the History of Parliament Trust, is part of our Named…
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Fasting and political crises in the 1640s: no beer ‘till the publike exercises and religious duties … be past and over’
As Parliament engages in momentous decision-making about the future of the country, Dr Vivienne Larminie of the House of Commons…
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Bolingbroke’s Reflections upon Exile
For our latest blog @GeorgianLords welcomes Dr Max Skjönsberg (St Andrews) offering some insights into the early philosophical writings of…