Speakers of the House

Standing orders and precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

December 4, 2018

Today’s blog from Glenn McKee follows his paper given at our Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar at the IHR last…

November 15, 2017

In today’s ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week 2017, Dr Robin Eagles considers the value of manuscript news accounts of…

May 11, 2017

In the era of live webcasts from the Chamber and committee rooms, rolling Hansard and near-instant transcripts of committee sessions,…

January 18, 2017

January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17, which first sat in October 1916…

October 27, 2015

A 15th century murder mystery features in this week’s blogpost. Dr Simon Payling, Senior Fellow of the Commons 1422-1504 section,…

May 18, 2015

Today Parliament returns, and the new assembly’s first job is to elect a new Speaker. Dr Simon Payling, Senior Fellow…