Articles by History of Parliament
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Romantic Memory: Forgetting, Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes, c.1790–1840
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Matthew Roberts, the author of Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult…
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Review of the Year 2020
2020 was a year like no other, a statement to which we can all attest. The Covid-19 pandemic created many…
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Collaborative Doctoral Award with Keele University and the University of Manchester: ‘A manly place? The experiences of female MPs at Westminster, 1970-2010’
We’re delighted to announce that the History of Parliament Trust will be collaborating with Keele University and the University of…
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‘An Auld Sang with a New Tune’: Devolution to Scotland in the 1970s
Today’s blog is from guest blogger Tom Chidwick. Tom is writing a history of the 1979 referendum in Scotland and…
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Powell’s Predecessors: The British Radical Right and Opposition to Commonwealth Immigration in Britain, 1952-1967
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Liam Liburd, at King’s College London. On…
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Divorce, cuckoldry and bastardy: two unhappy medieval marriages
Today’s blog comes from Dr Charles Moreton, senior research fellow in our Commons 1461-1504 project, who begins our latest blog…
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‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ and political representation
On the 230th anniversary of the publication of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, we hear from guest…
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The West India Interest and the Parliamentary Defence of Slavery, 1823-33
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Michael Taylor, the author of The Interest: How…
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The Politics of Protest in Britain: Race Riots in 1980-81
To mark Black History Month 2020, today’s post comes from guest blogger Dr Simon Peplow, senior teaching fellow at the…
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Catholic Forfeitures during the English Revolution: Parliament and the Role of Sequestration Agents
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Eilish Gregory at the University of Reading. She…
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The constituency of Oxfordshire in the reign of Henry VI, 1422-61
This month we’re turning our attention to Oxfordshire in our local history blog series. Kicking things off today is Dr…
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The Bonfire Night Coup: power politics at the Putney debates
In March we hosted the final Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar before lockdown forced the temporary closure of the Institute…
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Exploring parliamentary history through art
Today’s blog contains details of the Art UK online exhibitions that our researchers have curated during lockdown… The History of…
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A politician of conscience: Thomas Edmund Harvey (1875-1955) and conscientious objection
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Mark Frankel, a PhD candidate at the University of…
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Lockdown Entertainment: Medieval MPs and Books
Recent government lockdown measures have seen many people embrace new hobbies and pastimes to fill their days, including reading books.…