Social history
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‘Elections and how to fight them’: electioneering a century ago
We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today. Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Victorian Commons,…
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‘Horsham is Lady Irwin’s Borough’: the power of the 18th Century political widow
We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today, with an example of the power aristocratic women could…
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Electoral Independence in Tudor England
As the election campaign continues, so does our series of blogposts on historic campaigning. Today, all constituencies are contested and…
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Eleanor de Montfort, countess of Leicester (b. c. 1215-d. c. 1275): A countess and a rebel
Continuing our ongoing series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, this week’s guest blogpost looks…
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Henry, 4th Lord Willoughby of Parham: an accidental life
In today’s blogpost, Dr Paul Hunneyball, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-1660 section, shares the story of the mysterious 4th Lord…
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From the Grassroots exhibition launched
We were delighted to formally open our ‘From the Grassroots’ exhibition last week at the Forum, University of Exeter. ‘From…
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Christmas Day in the Commons, 1656
For those of you still working in Christmas week, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the…
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George Thomson ‘with the wooden leg’
It’s Disability History Month, and in honour of this year’s theme, ‘War and Impairment: The Social Consequences of Disablement’, Dr…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Alice Ferron, ‘The widow’s peak: early Stuart female voices of authority in Parliament.’
Alice Ferron, a final year PhD student at University College, London reports back on her paper at the last ‘Parliaments,…
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Seventeenth-century calls for English devolution
With the publication today of the Smith Commission recommending further powers for the Scottish Parliament, Philip Baker, Research Fellow on…
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‘You have behaved like a man of honour’: the duel between John Wilkes and Samuel Martin
Last night the London Record Society held a launch event for ‘The Diaries of John Wilkes, 1770-1797‘ edited by our…
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The History of Parliament’s Annual Lecture 2014: Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch
On 5th November our annual lecture was delivered in Portcullis House by Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch. Professor MacCulloch has published…