Social history
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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…
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Rage of Party: election day in the 1690-1715 period
Today we go to the polls to vote in European and local elections. Voting was a very different experience at…
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Nancy Astor: the first female MP in the House of Commons
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Victorian Commons, discusses the political career of the first female MP to sit…
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Struggling to get to work in the 15th century
We hope that our fellow Londoners’ journeys tonight are not too difficult during this week’s tube strikes. Dr Hannes Kleineke,…
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Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Tom Crewe, ‘The politics of image and the image of politics’
Our final ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of term took place last week. Tom Crewe, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, spoke…
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The Miners’ Strike: 30 years on
Thirty years ago this month the miners’ strike began. One of the defining moments of modern British history and Margaret…