Social history
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Bonfire night: Making ‘night like day’
As Bonfire Night approaches, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section takes a look…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Harm Kaal, ‘Popular politics: the friendly match between sport and politics in the Netherlands’
Dr Kathryn Rix, of the Victorian Commons, reports back on our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… Harm Kaal of…
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Time and the Commons
Our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, explores the development of the late night culture at the House of Commons… The above…
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Putting aside party controversy: party organisers and the First World War
One hundred years ago this month, the main British political parties decided to prioritise war in Europe over electoral battles. Dr Kathryn…
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Back to the future: Scottish parliaments in context
In the last of our series of blogposts on Anglo-Scottish relations, Dr Alastair Mann, Senior Lecturer at the University of…
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Agincourt, Dick Whittington and trials with Latin: a summer placement at the History of Parliament
From time to time student volunteers join sections of the History for short placements. This summer, the 1422-1504 section played…
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The Eglinton Tournament 1839: A Victorian take on the Anglo-Scottish Rivalry
As the Scottish independence referendum draws nearer, Dr Gordon Pentland, of Edinburgh University, guestblogs for us in the latest of…
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Union with Scotland – Cromwellian Style
Today’s post is the next in our series looking at Anglo-Scottish relations in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum.…
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New website launched for ‘From the Grassroots’
Today, we are delighted to launch our new, interactive website for our HLF-funded project From the Grassroots: An Oral History…
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Finding latitude in longitude: Parliamentary funding of early modern science and technology
Three hundred years ago this month, Parliament passed the ‘Longitude Act’. In this guest blog post, Dr Alexi Baker, Cambridge…
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Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Dr Geoff Hicks on ‘Memorialising Britain’s politicians: the politics of Parliament Square’
Our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar paper report, thanks to Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons… Geoff Hicks of…
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Dangerous Liaisons in 15th Century England: Sir John Butler
In June 1477 one parliamentarian who had successfully avoided the dangers of the Wars of the Roses met a violent…