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A tribute to Ted Graham, MP and Labour peer
In today’s blog, our Oral History Project lead, Dr Emma Peplow, pays tribute to Lord Graham of Edmonton, who was…
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The true Queen of the West
May marks Local & Community History Month and kick-starts a new Local History blog series at the History of Parliament.…
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Towards the Restoration of the Monarchy, 1-8 May 1660
Today’s blog from Dr Andrew Barclay, senior research fellow for our Commons 1640-1660 project, is the second in a three-part…
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Children and Parliament in Medieval England
Continuing the theme of children and Parliament following Helen Sunderland’s blog about schoolgirls’ visits to the House of Parliament, 1880-1918…
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Early modern Parliament and Coffee
The History of Parliament team is very fond of a cup of coffee to help power through a day of…
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Schoolgirls’ visits to the Houses of Parliament, 1880-1918
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Helen Sunderland, a PhD candidate at Corpus Christi,…
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The ‘Convention’ that wasn’t: the Opening of the 1660 Parliament
Today we hear from Dr Andrew Barclay, senior research fellow for our Commons 1640-1660 project. He explores the accuracy of…
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Ancient Britain, the Mother of Parliaments?
St George’s Day seems an appropriate moment to invoke John Bright’s famous, and much misunderstood, statement of 1865 that ‘England…
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Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Open University: The Black and Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics, 1750-1850
We are pleased to announce that the History of Parliament Trust is participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership…
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Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of Dorset: an overlooked Jacobean statesman?
Continuing our preview of the History of Parliament’s forthcoming volumes on the House of Lords 1604-29, Dr Ben Coates of…
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Social Distancing – Medieval Style: a Petition of the Commons in the Parliament of 1439
As discussions turn to how Parliament should operate during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our 1461-1504 section,…
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‘Where the disease is desperate, the remedy must be so too’: debating the 1721 Quarantine Act
The latest blog for the Georgian Lords considers the topical issue of quarantine. In the 1720s the government was forced…
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Isolation, Containment and Financial Assistance: Parliament’s response to epidemics in the 1640s
In today’s blog Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant Editor of our Commons 1640-1660 project, considers self-isolation, social distancing and containing disease…
