Social history
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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…
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Big Ben and the British
With Big Ben – possibly – due to fall silent next week, our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, discusses the history…
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MPs as law enforcers in Late Medieval England
In today’s guest blog, from Dr Gordon McKelvie from the University of Winchester discusses whether the MPs who passed legislation…
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50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, 1967
On 12 July 2017 we brought together parliamentarians, activists and historians to mark 50 years since the passing of the…
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Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar: Kathryn Rix, ‘The professionalisation of electoral politics: the Liberal and Conservative party agents, 1880-1910’
At our last ‘Parliaments, Politics & People’ seminar, Dr. Kathryn Rix, assistant editor of our Victorian Commons project, spoke on…
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Hot takes and fake news: news management through the Votes of the House of Commons
In the era of live webcasts from the Chamber and committee rooms, rolling Hansard and near-instant transcripts of committee sessions,…