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1614: The Beginning of the Crisis of Parliaments
Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the Lords 1603-60 section, describes events in the ‘Addled Parliament’, which was meeting 400 years…
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More 17th century diplomatic incidents: the King of Denmark and his unfortunate gesture to the hero of the Armada
Dr Ben Coates, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-60 section, relates a less-than-diplomatic exchange in 1606 between King Christian…
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Remembering Culloden
On 16 April 1746, the battle of Culloden brought to a close the last serious attempt to restore the exiled…
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John Wilkes: A friend to liberty?
Last week Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1660-1832 project gave a lecture in Parliament on ‘John…
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MPs in the Crimean War, 1853-56
With the help of research undertaken by the Victorian Commons, today’s blog takes a look at MPs who fought during…
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History of Parliament schools competitions 2014: your turn this year?
Recently we held the prize day for our 2013 schools competition. Our three winners, Ami Ganatra, Jessica Welchman (Key Stage…
