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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The Political and Religious Origins of the 1563 Witchcraft Act
Ahead of this evening’s session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics, and People seminar, Lewis Brennen, PhD candidate at the University…
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Parliament versus the People: the Newport rising of 1839
Today marks the 180th anniversary of the Newport rising when government forces and Welsh Chartists clashed in the town of…
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Bats and Devils: Henry VI’s ‘seasonally-named’ parliaments
Rather appropriately for our Halloween blog offering, we hear from Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our House of Commons 1461-1504…
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A life in parliamentary history: Linda Clark
Today, editor of our newest project, the Commons 1461-1504, Dr. Hannes Kleineke pays to tribute to the recently retired editor…
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Disregarding the Past: The Problems of Pardoning Homosexual Offences
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, the speaker from the previous session in collaboration with the…
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The ‘Interruption’ of Parliament and the quest for political settlement, October 1659
In the first of a new blog series charting the collapse of the British Republic, Dr Vivienne Larminie of the…
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The Exclusion Parliaments
This blog from Paul Seaward, British Academy/Wolfson Research Professor at the History of Parliament Trust, is part of our Named…
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The battle of Ludford Bridge
Today on our new blog page The Commons in the Wars of the Roses, Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow…
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‘A blank in the History of the country’: The ‘Unreported Parliament’ 1768-74
Today Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our House of Lords 1715-1790 section continues with our Named Parliaments blog theme… Throughout…
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Tobacco Fraud and the Prorogation of April 1707
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley, senior research fellow in the Lords 1715-90 section, considers…
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The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
With the History of Parliament’s volumes for the reign of Henry VI complete and due for publication shortly, the focus…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – The ‘Gothic slum’: MPs and St Stephen’s Cloisters, 1852-2017
In May 2018, Dr Elizabeth Biggs and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith introduced the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar to…
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A female politician? Lady Derby and mid-Victorian political life
Continuing our series on Women and Parliament, Dr. Jennifer Davey of the University of East Anglia looks at the influence…
