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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,…
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A Trojan horse in the House of Lords? The South Sea Company and the peerage
2020 marks the 300th anniversary of one of the most spectacular stock market crashes in British history when the South…
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Review of the year 2019
The final year of the decade has been a busy one for the History of Parliament Trust. We’ve sent volumes…
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Sitting at Christmas: getting business done, 1643
In a previous blog our director, Dr Stephen Roberts, explored legislation by which parliamentarians of the 1640s tried to promote…
