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How can the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) help me? : researching the English and British Civil Wars and the Commonwealth and Protectorate period
May 2023 saw the publication of the History of Parliament’s latest work, The House of Commons 1640-1660. This publication has…
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‘Jane’ and the last days of Bellamy’s Refreshment Rooms
This month sees the publication of Necessary Women: the Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women, by Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth…
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Roundtable on Henry J. Miller, A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge, 2023)
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People roundtable seminar, we hear from Dr Henry Miller of the University of Durham. On…
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Contested Space: Politics and the Commons Chamber
The Palace of Westminster was the location of some of the most dramatic events in the English Civil Wars. Dr…
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Who do they think they are? Lineage of members of the House of Lords
One thought he was descended from Adam, another that he was a Hapsburg prince. In this latest blog, Dr Robin…
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Hogarth in Derby
From 10 March to 4 June 2023 Derby Museum and Art Gallery hosted an exhibition Hogarth’s Britons. Succession, Patriotism and…
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The reinvention of the political wife in the age of suffrage
Ahead of next Tuesday’s hybrid Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Ellie Lowe of Selwyn College, Cambridge. On 13…
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Property, profit, principle and hazard: being an MP during the civil wars and interregnum
Being an MP during the civil wars and interregnum came with a certain amount of danger. The decisions that MPs…
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A War for ‘Small Nations’: Wales and Empire from the Boer War to the Great War, 1899-1918
In today’s blog we hear from Robert Crosby, formerly of the London School of Economics, winner of the History of…
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Launching the Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Oxford March 2023
An event celebrating the the publication of a new edition of The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell was…
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‘Almost an afterthought’: Queen Charlotte
The latest series of Bridgerton – Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story – has captured viewers with a reimagining of the…
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The king’s dilemma: how it fell to George V to choose a new prime minister
In May 1923, Andrew Bonar Law handed in his resignation letter and it fell to King George V to select…
