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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Jamaican legislature in the British Atlantic world, 1660 to 1840
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from Dr Aaron Graham,…
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Archbishop Laud’s secret ‘misfortunes’: decoding sexual identity in the seventeenth century
Continuing the theme of LGBTQ+ History Month, Dr Paul Hunneyball, assistant editor of the Lords 1558-1603 section, explores the problem…
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Maureen Colquhoun: “an open lesbian-feminist woman” in the House of Commons
In our second blog for LGBTQ+ History Month our Public Engagement Manager, Sammy Sturgess, explores the parliamentary career of Maureen…
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Voices from the Oral History Project – Chris Smith
Unusually for a profile of one of our Oral History Project interviewees, Chris Smith has not recently passed away! Yet…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Max Skjönsberg from the University of Liverpool revisits his…
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Stand and deliver: sex, scandal and the Beaufort divorce case
In the middle of the 18th century polite society was both shocked and entertained by the lurid details following on…
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Making the most of a parhelion: the earl of March and the battle of Mortimer’s Cross
In our latest blog Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow for the Commons 1461-1504 project, looks back to this date in…
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New project: the Elizabethan House of Lords
A new year at the History of Parliament Trust sees the start of a new project. Research on the House…
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Exiting the English Republic, part 1: political flux in early 1660
Continuing the series on the turmoil of 1659-1660, which saw a retreat from radicalism and political experiment, Dr Vivienne Larminie,…
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Yorkist Parliaments, but not at York
At the beginning of this week, the government sparked debate by announcing the possibility of relocating the House of Lords…
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The History of Parliament Trust is on YouTube
Coming up in 2020 the History of Parliament Trust has exciting plans for the expansion of our online resources, the…
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The 14th century origins of the parliamentary impeachment process
In light of recent proceedings in the United States, in our latest blog Dr Charles Moreton, senior research fellow with…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Petitioning, Parliament and Representation, 1780-1918
This evening the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar series returns with a paper about Edmund Burke, Whiggism and party,…
