Articles by History of Parliament
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Review of the year 2019
The final year of the decade has been a busy one for the History of Parliament Trust. We’ve sent volumes…
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Parliaments, Politics, and People: The Referendum issue & the constitutional crisis before the First World War
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics, and People seminar, we hear from Dr. Roland Quinault, a Senior Research Fellow…
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‘Duely sensible of their obligation’: the role of women in Georgian election balls
With general elections back in the news, the Georgian Lords welcomes back Hillary Burlock for the second part of her…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The Political and Religious Origins of the 1563 Witchcraft Act
Ahead of this evening’s session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics, and People seminar, Lewis Brennen, PhD candidate at the University…
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Disregarding the Past: The Problems of Pardoning Homosexual Offences
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, the speaker from the previous session in collaboration with the…
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The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
With the History of Parliament’s volumes for the reign of Henry VI complete and due for publication shortly, the focus…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – The ‘Gothic slum’: MPs and St Stephen’s Cloisters, 1852-2017
In May 2018, Dr Elizabeth Biggs and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith introduced the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar to…
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A female politician? Lady Derby and mid-Victorian political life
Continuing our series on Women and Parliament, Dr. Jennifer Davey of the University of East Anglia looks at the influence…
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Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Open University: The Black and Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics, 1750-1850
We are pleased to announce that the History of Parliament Trust is participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership…
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The Six Acts and Censorship of the Press
Today we round off our Peterloo blog series with Dr Katie Carpenter’s second post about the legislation that was rushed…
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Protest Against the Six Acts
On this day in 1819 the massacre that was soon dubbed ‘Peterloo’ by the press occurred on St Peter’s Field…
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The Inquest into the death of John Lees
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s third piece, which considers the inquest…
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The Man in the Moon: Peterloo and Satire continued
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s second piece about…
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Remembering Peterloo: protest, satire and reform
On 11 July 2019 the History of Parliament Trust, the Parliamentary Archives and the Citizens Project hosted Professor Robert Poole,…
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Medieval MP of the Month: John Howard, from the Battle of Castillon to the Battle of Bosworth
Our Medieval MP of the Month series continues with John Howard, one of the only two known soldiers to have…