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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Philip Loft, ‘Litigation, agency and oligarchy: the transformation and role of the Lords as High Court, 1689-1720’
Dr Paul Hunneyball, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-1660 section, reports back on our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’…
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A perpetual disturbance? The history of the previous question
After ‘chaos’ in the House of Commons on Monday night, our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, discusses the ‘previous question’ motion……
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A tribute to Gerald L. Harriss, FBA
Dr Simon Payling, Senior Fellow of the Commons 1422-1504 section, pays tribute to the influential medieval historian and his own…
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‘The first M.P. to fall’: the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O’Neill (1876-1914)
Over the next four years, we’ll be blogging short biographies of the MPs who died fighting in the First World…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Jennifer Wells, Crafting empire: republican imperialism and parliamentary policy 1647-60’
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar is back for a new term. Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the…
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Defection, by-elections and Europe… in the 1970s.
In tomorrow’s by-election in Clacton, former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell will contest his previous seat after defection to UKIP. Carswell’s…
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Magna Carta in Coventry
The wonderful Public Catalogue Foundation website discussion strand, Art Detective, has been hosting a discussion about this picture at St…
