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‘Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments’ Conference for 2015
Following last week’s blogpost about our 2014 conference, ‘Parliaments and Minorities’, today we have published an advanced notice of an…
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‘Parliaments and Minorities’ conference in May 2014
Here at the History of Parliament, we have two exciting conferences coming up in 2014 and 2015. Here’s news of…
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Picture perfect: Could your images feature on the History of Parliament Online?
Here at the History of Parliament, we are always trying to find more images for our website. As you can…
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Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s
Over the past few days Parliament Week has been in full swing and events have taken place around the country…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Dr Andrew Thrush, ‘The Fall of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and the revival of impeachment, 1621’
Our own Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the House of Lords 1603-1660 section, discusses his recent ‘Parliaments, politics and people’…
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Recording speech in early modern England: Parliament, preachers and the Putney debates
In his work on the 1624 Parliamentary Diaries, Philip Baker deals with the difficulties in deciphering 17th Century record keeping…
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The legend of Agincourt in Parliament
On the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Dr Hannes Kleineke discusses how the memories and growing legends…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Parliamentary oratory and images – a new approach to the study of late medieval and early modern political culture
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar returned for a new term with a paper given by three German scholars. Professor…
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Burning the House down: The Fire of 1834
Today in 1834 a huge fire swept through the old Palace of Westminster, destroying most of the medieval buildings. Caroline…
