Religious history
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Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: Jason Frost, ‘Church, State and Parliament in the Late Eighteenth Century in the Martyrdom Day Sermons of 30th January’
Reporting back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar, Jason Frost (University of Westminster) spoke on ‘Church, State and…
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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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The ‘Story of Parliament’: Civil War leaders
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: Thomas Cromwell
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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How Closely Related Were George I and Queen Anne?
Over on twitter this week we are marking the 300th anniversary of the death of Queen Anne and the Hanoverian…
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Nolo episcopari
On Monday, the Church of England voted to allow women bishops for the first time. This prompted Matthew Kilburn, research…
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Fighting in foreign wars: fears over English Catholics in the Netherlands’ war with Spain
Events in Iraq and Syria have led Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the Lords 1603-1660 section, to reflect on a…
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Who should sit on the throne?: the Commons, Lords and William & Mary, 1689
325 years ago today Parliament offered the crown to William and Mary, along with the Declaration of Rights (later to…