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Ball Lightning in Early Modern England: The Curious Case of Nicholas Walsh, MP
In their work our researchers have discovered many strange and unusual causes of the death that have befallen parliamentarians over…
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Plague, prorogation and the suspension of the courts in fifteenth-century England
In another timely blog from our History of Parliament researchers, today Dr Simon Payling, senior research fellow for the Commons…
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The Bonfire Night Coup: power politics at the Putney debates
In March we hosted the final Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar before lockdown forced the temporary closure of the Institute…
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Pubs, Publicans and Parliament in the later Middle Ages
Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our Commons 1461-1504 project, is one of many people celebrating parliament’s decision to allow the…
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The Mystery of the ‘Black Box’ and the ‘true’ heirs of Charles II
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles probes the mysteries of the ‘black box’ that was…
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The Horticultural Heroism of Sir Walter Erle
As Britain continues to take advantage of the great outdoors during Covid-19 lockdown, this week Dr Patrick Little, senior research…
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Exploring parliamentary history through art
Today’s blog contains details of the Art UK online exhibitions that our researchers have curated during lockdown… The History of…
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A tribute to Joe Ashton, MP for Bassetlaw 1968-2001
This is our third blogpost paying tribute to former MPs and interviewees of our Oral History Project who have sadly…
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The ‘troubled nature’ of Francis Norris, earl of Berkshire: a Jacobean peer’s battle with depression
As public debate intensifies about the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on mental health, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of…
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The royal scandal that helped change British politics: the 1820 Queen Caroline affair
On 5 June 1820 Caroline of Brunswick returned to England to take her place as Queen Consort to George IV.…
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A politician of conscience: Thomas Edmund Harvey (1875-1955) and conscientious objection
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Mark Frankel, a PhD candidate at the University of…
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‘Southwark men, who are but traitors’: merchants, rioters, radicals and the ‘good old cause’ in the mid-seventeenth century
In the latest History of Parliament blog we return to our local history study of Southwark. Following our medieval look…
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Sex, (almost) in the city: Southwark – a constituency of contrasts
Continuing our collaborative local history blog series, this month we are exploring the constituency of Southwark. In the first of…
