Social history
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The perils of foreign travel in the early modern era
With holidays abroad still a major challenge due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of our…
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Out this month: ‘The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament’
Later this month the very first book based on our Oral History Project Archive is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Today,…
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A tribute to John M. H. Lee
In the fifth blog of this sombre series that pays tribute to interviewees from our Oral History Project, Emma Peplow…
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‘Going into the country’: leave, holidays and political intrigue in the 1640s
As the easing of lockdown encourages many of us to seize opportunities to go on holiday, and especially take ‘staycations’,…
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The Bonfire Night Coup: power politics at the Putney debates
In March we hosted the final Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar before lockdown forced the temporary closure of the Institute…
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Pubs, Publicans and Parliament in the later Middle Ages
Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our Commons 1461-1504 project, is one of many people celebrating parliament’s decision to allow the…
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The Horticultural Heroism of Sir Walter Erle
As Britain continues to take advantage of the great outdoors during Covid-19 lockdown, this week Dr Patrick Little, senior research…
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The ‘troubled nature’ of Francis Norris, earl of Berkshire: a Jacobean peer’s battle with depression
As public debate intensifies about the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on mental health, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of…
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The royal scandal that helped change British politics: the 1820 Queen Caroline affair
On 5 June 1820 Caroline of Brunswick returned to England to take her place as Queen Consort to George IV.…
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‘Southwark men, who are but traitors’: merchants, rioters, radicals and the ‘good old cause’ in the mid-seventeenth century
In the latest History of Parliament blog we return to our local history study of Southwark. Following our medieval look…
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Sex, (almost) in the city: Southwark – a constituency of contrasts
Continuing our collaborative local history blog series, this month we are exploring the constituency of Southwark. In the first of…
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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…