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Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ and the perils of Lords ‘reform’
In this guest post, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons of Lincoln University, looks at a constitutional issue from the 1650s with obvious…
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‘The first humble beginnings of an agitation’: the women’s suffrage petition of 7 June 1866
The campaign to secure the parliamentary vote for women was a long-running one. Dr Kathryn Rix, assistant editor of our…
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The Commons at work: the Chairman of Ways and Means
The Speaker of the House of Commons is a remarkably familiar figure to television audiences around the world. Anyone viewing…
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‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a…
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The Making of a Marcher Town: Ludlow and the Wars of the Roses
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the crucial role of the Shropshire town of Ludlow during the Wars…
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The Last of the Jacobites: Henry Benedict
Henry Benedict, Cardinal York (1725-1807), born 300 years ago this March, was the last member of the royal family to…
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Approaching the ‘great Court of Justice now sitting’: petitioning and parliamentary memory in the Long Parliament (1640-1642)
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Ellen Paterson, Keble College, University of Oxford.…
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The 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake
On 6 April 1580, as Queen Elizabeth I was taking the air in the fields around Whitehall, south-east England experienced…
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Almost a Parliament: Edward V’s assembly of 25 June 1483
The death of Edward IV on 9 April 1483 saw the accession of his son Edward V to the English…
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Scrutinising Wartime Britain: The Commons Committees on National Expenditure 1917-20 and 1939-45
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Philip Aylett. On 25 February, Philip will discuss…
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Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space
On Friday 14 March 2025, a one-day conference, Lived Experiences of Westminster Parliament in History: People, Sociability, Communities, & Space,…
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Background to the American Revolution
As part of a new infrequent series on the American Revolution and its connection to Parliament, Dr Robin Eagles explores…
