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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…
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Women in early modern parliamentary politics
Over the last few weeks we have been marking Women’s History Month. Continuing the discussion of women’s parliamentary history, Dr…
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Port’s indelible mark on British history
We’re sure that, just like the History of Parliament’s staff who are all working from home, the reality of the…
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‘You’d better accept you’ll have to concentrate on domestic politics for now’ – gender bias in the post-war House of Commons
As Women’s History Month reaches a close, Dr Emma Peplow, lead coordinator of our Oral History Project, looks back through…
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Was the battle of Towton as bloody as all that?
Today is the anniversary of the battle of Towton, a violent battle in 1461 which resulted in Edward IV claiming…
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Exiting the English Republic part 2: the end of the Long Parliament
In the second half of her series on exiting the English Republic (part one available here) Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant…
