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Queen Victoria and parliamentary ceremony
During her record-breaking 70 years of service, Queen Elizabeth II has become no stranger to parliamentary traditions like the State…
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Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: The State of Research
In our latest blog we’re returning to the ‘Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700’ project. Since autumn 2021, we have been working with the University…
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Episcopalians, puritans, presbyterians and sectaries: contesting the Church of England in the mid seventeenth century
If you visualize religious history in the 1640s and 1650s as a blanket triumph of puritanism, think again. As Dr…
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Lady Frances Balfour: A Woman in Parliament before Enfranchisement
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Professor Susan Pedersen of Columbia University. On 24…
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Parliament and the Politics of intimidation in Medieval England
As some of our previous blogs demonstrate, Medieval parliamentarians were no stranger to acts of physical violence. However as Dr…
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The Last Peer Hanged for Murder
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles re-examines the trial and execution of Laurence Shirley, 4th…
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The Union in Peril: The British Government and the Scottish Question in the Shadow of the Oil Crisis, c. 1973-1975.
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Robbie Johnston of the University of Edinburgh.…
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Local polls and national politics: a 19th century perspective
As much of the UK prepares to vote in local elections this week, in this blog (adapted from our Victorian…
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The execution of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk
As the 450th anniversary of the execution of the Elizabethan duke of Norfolk approaches, Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of our…
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‘Why not you?’ Sir John Cust, reluctant Speaker of the House of Commons
It is one of Westminster’s many traditions that, when an MP is elected to the role of Speaker of the…
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Legislature meets library: Parliament at Oxford in 1625
As part of our Parliament away from Westminster series, Dr Paul Hunneyball of our Lords 1558-1603 section explores the factors…
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Sir William Oldhall, Speaker in the Parliament of 1450-1
In recent months we have been looking into some of the more notable parliamentarians to hold the post of ‘Speaker’…
