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Female Dukes
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley considers the cases of peerages held by women in…
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Portraits, patrons, and political networks in late Stuart and early Georgian England
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Amy Lim of St Hilda’s College,…
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Did they marry? Lady Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford
For Elizabeth I’s closest relatives, the process of finding a spouse could be fraught with difficulties, as Dr Ben Coates…
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Late Medieval Europe: Founding a Parliamentary Culture
In our latest blog we’re returning to the ‘Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700’ project. Since late September, we’ve been working with the University of…
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Commemorating same-sex desire in early modern England
To mark LGBT History Month 2022, Dr Paul Hunneyball of our Lords 1558-1603 project considers a paradox in perceptions of…
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From ‘People’s Champions’ to ‘Tribunes of the People’: popular politicians in Parliament, c. 1810 to 1867
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Simon Morgan of Leeds Beckett…
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Parliament and the removal of a political leader: a fifteenth-century example
Despite Westminster’s image as the home of Parliament, throughout our project there are many examples of members gathering in other…
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Silence and Laughter in the Cromwellian House of Commons
On our blog we have often heard about the origins of the many strange and enduring traditions that exist within…
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‘Do you know where this miserable wretch lives?’: Challenging votes in Eighteenth-Century England
As the Government looks set to make the introduction of voter ID requirements a flagship policy for 2022, parallels can…
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Parliamentary Humanism: The History of Parliaments as The History of Ideas
In our latest blog we’re returning to the ‘Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700’ project. Since late September, we’ve been working…
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‘There is no more accoumpt to bee made of them than the kylling of ij sheep’: Charles, Lord Stourton (d.1557), and the murder of the Hartgills
Last year Dr Simon Payling from our Commons 1461-1504 project explored the case of the first peer to be executed…
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Pretending to be a Peer? The unlikely Lord Griffin and the Convention of January 1689
In today’s blog Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our Lords 1715-1790 project, looks into the case of Edward Griffin, a…
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The Love Life of Oliver Cromwell
In the second of his posts exploring the popular reputation of the lord protector, Dr Patrick Little, senior research fellow…
