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‘All that he hoped for and all that he had he gave’: Philip Kirkland Glazebrook (1880-1918)
Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at an unlikely former MP…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part Two)
Continuing from yesterday’s blog ‘St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)’, today Dr Stephen Roberts, the History…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)
In honour of St. David, the patron saint of Wales and St. David’s Day today, Dr Stephen Roberts, our Director,…
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James I and his favourites: sex and power at the Jacobean court
As LGBT History Month draws to a close Dr Paul M. Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-1629 Section discusses the nature…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series – Speaking in the Newspaper: Richard Brinsley Sheridan in April 1798
Today’s blog is from Prof. Robert W Jones, who is professor of eighteenth-century studies in the School of English at the…
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Bishops and Popular Opinion in the Era of Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Bill
Today’s post is a guest blog from PhD candidate Nicholas Dixon of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Nicholas shares this…
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The importance of royal pardons in Restoration England.
The UK is celebrating the centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed some…
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1624 Proceedings: The House of Commons
Today Philip Baker, former Research Fellow of the History of Parliament and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, explains the background…
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Reporting the House of Lords 1660-1832
The latest blog from the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles reports back from last month’s conference of the British Society…
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Art, power and money: the sale of Charles I’s art collection
On Tuesday of this week – 30th January – we observed the anniversary of the regicide, the execution of Charles…
