Dr Paul Hunneyball

Assistant Editor, House of Lords, 1558-1603

p.hunneyball@histparl.ac.uk

Current Research/Role

I am assistant editor of the Lords 1558-1603 section, having joined the History in 1995. Before that, I was a senior research fellow and then associate editor at the History, after completing a doctorate at the University of Oxford on cultural change in seventeenth-century Hertfordshire. I have written articles for volumes on the Commons 1604-29 and Lords 1604-29, including Sir John Eliot, Inigo Jones, John Selden, William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke, Lancelot Andrewes, bishop of Winchester, and William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury. Articles drafted for the Lords 1558-1603 project include Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, Charles Blount, 8th Lord Mountjoy, and John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury. I am currently working on Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, and William Paulet, 1st marquess of Winchester.

Research Interests

My wider research interests include parliamentary procedure, aristocratic opposition to the Crown, and parliamentary buildings in the early modern period; and seventeenth-century English cultural history, such as the transmission of architectural fashions, and evolving aesthetic perceptions. I have published on a range of topics from the dynamics of architectural taste in Hertfordshire, and Oliver Cromwell’s building-works, to electoral politics in Cornwall, and the development of parliamentary privilege.

Publications

Books

Architecture and Image-Building in Seventeenth-Century Hertfordshire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Sir William Lower and the Harriot Circle (Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar occasional paper; University of Durham, 2002).

Chapters in Books

A. Thrush (ed.), The History of Parliament: The House of Lords 1604-29 (3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) [numerous articles].

A. Thrush and J. P. Ferris (eds.), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1604-1629 (6 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) [numerous articles]

‘The House of Commons, 1603-29’, in C. Jones (ed.), A Short History of Parliament (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009).

‘Cromwellian Style: the Architectural Trappings of the Protectorate Regime’, in P. Little (ed.), The Cromwellian Protectorate (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007).

‘Country Retreats in Seventeenth-Century Hertfordshire’, in M. Airs and G. Tyack (eds.), The Renaissance Villa in Britain, 1500-1700 (Reading: Spire Books, 2007).

‘Conjectural Plan of the Palace of Westminster c.1640’, in C. R. Kyle and J. Peacey (eds.), Parliament at Work (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002).

Journal Articles

‘The Development of Parliamentary Privilege, 1604-29’, Parliamentary History, 34:1 (2015), pp. 111-28.

‘Prince Charles’s Council as Electoral Agent, 1620-24’, Parliamentary History, 23:3 (2004), pp. 316-35.

Specialisms: Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century, Political History, Architectural History, Cultural History, Social History, Reformation History