Social history
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: Philip Baker, ‘But private notes for my owne memory’? Parliamentary diaries in seventeenth-century England
Philip Baker writes about his ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar paper last week, ‘‘But private notes for my owne memory’?…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The struggle for political representation: Labour candidates and the Liberal Party, 1868-1888
The latest paper in our ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar series was given by Dr James Owen, of the Victorian…
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An Early Welsh Manifesto
To celebrate St David’s Day tomorrow, Dr Stephen Roberts, the editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, discusses a text used in…
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Launching the new website London Electoral History, 1700-1850
Today we have a guest blog to introduce a fantastic new resource for those of you interested in politics and…
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It helps to have friends in high places: the acquittal of Lord Mohun
Today in 1693, Charles, 4th Lord Mohun, was acquitted of murder by his fellow peers. Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research…
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From the Grassroots: The official launch
Last week we made the trip down to the wonderful Devon Heritage Centre for the official launch of our new…
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The trial of Charles I: an early modern show trial?
To begin our day-by-day retelling of the trial of Charles I over on twitter, Philip Baker, Research Fellow on the…
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‘From the Grassroots’ launch event: you’re invited!
As you will all know, we are very excited here about our new oral history project ‘From the Grassroots: An…
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Parliament and Christmas during the Civil War
One of the worst insults today thrown at Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans in the mid-17th Century House of Commons…
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‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar – ‘Cobbett at 250: a failed MP?’
The Victorian Commons’ Dr Kathryn Rix reports back from our last ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar of the term… This…
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Class and Parliament
MPs’ social background has been making the news recently, after a study conducted by the Conservative think tank Policy Exchange…
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MPs pay: the never ending controversy
Today’s blogpost is from a guest blogger, Edward Hicks, PhD candidate at St Anne’s College, Oxford who joined us over…