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The perils of foreign travel in the early modern era
With holidays abroad still a major challenge due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of our…
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From duelling to sharing the representation: Northumberland’s electoral politics in the nineteenth century
Continuing this month’s focus on Northumberland, Dr. Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons, 1832-68 project, explores the…
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Out this month: ‘The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament’
Later this month the very first book based on our Oral History Project Archive is published by Bloomsbury Academic. Today,…
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The Mayflower: The New England men at Westminster, 1640-1660
In September 1620, the Mayflower set sail, transporting the first Puritan separatists to the ‘New World’. But, even thousands of…
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A tribute to John M. H. Lee
In the fifth blog of this sombre series that pays tribute to interviewees from our Oral History Project, Emma Peplow…
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A revolting pocket borough: Morpeth in the late eighteenth century
In our latest Georgian Lords blog, in keeping with our general focus for the month on the county of Northumberland,…
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Northumberland in the British Civil Wars
This month’s local history focus is Northumberland and we’re kicking things off with a look at the county during the…
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A tribute to David Mudd MP
In the fourth in our series of tributes to our Oral History Project interviewees who have sadly passed away during…
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Real or imagined? Fifteenth-century MPs as perpetrators of violence
In our latest blog we’re exploring some of the dangerous reputations held by Medieval MPs with Dr Simon Payling, senior…
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York: exploring the local history of a Victorian constituency
Alongside biographies of 2,591 MPs, our House of Commons 1832-68 project is also researching and writing articles on the 401…
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York 1660-1760
For this month’s local history focus we are looking at the borough constituency of York. A city not unfamiliar with…
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The queen and the chemist’s son: Matthew Wood MP and the radical defence of Queen Caroline
A hop merchant and former Lord Mayor, Wood brought Caroline out of exile in June 1820 and housed her at…
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‘Going into the country’: leave, holidays and political intrigue in the 1640s
As the easing of lockdown encourages many of us to seize opportunities to go on holiday, and especially take ‘staycations’,…
