Social history
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Event review: Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, 22 March 2018.
Today’s blog is a summary of our afternoon event about Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, which was…
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Why political history still matters
Dr Katrina Navickas from the University of Hertfordshire was the keynote speaker at the History of Parliament Trust and Durham…
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Public Petitioning and Parliament, 1689-1760
Today’s blog from Philip Loft, currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is part of our week…
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St Piran’s Day: Tin, Tricks and Terror in 15th-century Cornwall
Continuing with our patron saint series, today we hear from Dr Hannes Kleineke of the Commons 1422-1504 Section about the patron…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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Georgian Christmas Recesses
For Parliamentarians in the early Georgian period, Christmas was not infrequently interrupted by the business of politics. Dr Charles Littleton…
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‘Anxious for the welfare of his people’: the passage of the Royal Marriages Act (1772)
Last week we welcomed the news of the forthcoming marriage of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle. This is notable as…
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Parliament, the French church and ‘illegal’ worship
Following the recent publication of her edited volume ‘Huguenot Networks’, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60…
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Dabadhai Naoroji: the life of the first Indian MP
Last month we were delighted to celebrate the life and work of Dr Dadabhai Naoroji at an event in Portcullis…
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“A foreigner is therefore the most likely man to give an impartial account”?: French observers of the early eighteenth-century British Parliament
Published this week and edited by our own Dr Vivienne Larminie, Huguenot Networks, 1560–1780 The Interactions and Impact of a…
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Parliament and the First World War
In partnership with the Parliamentary Archives alongside their current exhibition on Parliament and the First World War, we recently held…
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St Bartholomew and the Huguenots
On this day 1572 Europe was shocked by the anti-Protestant violence in Paris which came to be known as the…