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The Welsh and the English…
Another, short, blog for St David’s day (you would never guess where I’m from!) and our celebration of all things…
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Welsh Electoral Arithmetic, 1640-1660
As today is St David’s day, and in preparation for the upcoming ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar in which Rhodri…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Andrew Thrush, (History of Parliament) ‘The 1621 Parliament and the Origins of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords’
Dr Andrew Thrush editor of the History of Parliament’s 1603-1660 House of Lords section recently addressed our ‘Parliaments, Politics and…
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Family history research on historyofparliamentonline.org
As family historians across the country head to London for this weekend’s Who Do You Think You Are Live event,…
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The power of the Long Parliament’s Committees
Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, shares some of the new research they are doing into the…
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A royal wedding for Valentine’s Day, 1613
A romantic blog for Valentine’s day; four hundred years ago today James VI & I’s daughter Elizabeth married the Elector…
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Col Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaires (2) MPs, their backgrounds and experiences
In the second of her blogs inspired by her recent book, ‘Colonel Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaire: Members of Parliament 1885-1918’, Priscilla…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Jonathan Fitzgibbons (Cambridge) ‘Concord or Discord?: The Third Protectorate Parliament and the Pitfalls of J.T. Rutt’s edition of Thomas Burton’s Diary’
Our first seminar update of the new term… At our latest Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons made…
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Call for Papers: ‘Protean Patriots? New Research on the Patriot Opposition to Sir Robert Walpole’, Friday 7 June, Hampton Court Palace
A call for papers for a conference on the opposition to Walpole this summer… Building on the History of Parliament’s…
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The honourable member for Lambeth North, I presume? Henry Morton Stanley’s parliamentary career
On the anniversary of his birth on 28 January 1841, Dr. Kathryn Rix examines the lesser-known parliamentary career of the…
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Colonel Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaires: An introduction
Priscilla Baines has recently published a new book, ‘Colonel Josiah Wedgwood’s Questionnaire: Members of Parliament 1885-1918’. Her work analyses the…
