Articles by History of Parliament
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Electoral Firsts in the 1918 Election: Event Review
Today we hear from our undergraduate intern from the History department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Matthew Anderson. For…
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From Parliamentary Politics to Authoritarianism: A Reflection on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Ahead of this evening’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Evan Fowler, associate fellow of…
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Sir John Popham: A Speaker-Elect Makes a Quick Escape from the Parliamentary Turmoil caused by England’s Precipitous Exit from Europe
In light of the recent controversy surrounding the current Speaker of the House of Commons and his position on Brexit,…
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Review of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! After all of the staff changes at the end of 2017 we started the new…
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Reflections on the Vote 100 project and the Lady Astor Statue project #Astor100
The final installment for the Women and Parliament blog series in 2018 is rather appropriately written by Linda Gilroy, former…
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Standing orders and precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Today’s blog from Glenn McKee follows his paper given at our Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar at the IHR last…
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Medieval MP of the Month: An MP Struck by Lightning
Today we hear from House of Commons 1422-1504 Section Editor, Dr Linda Clark for the next instalment in our series ‘Medieval…
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Robert Lowe and the University of London constituency
Ahead of tonight’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar we hear from Professor Jon Parry of Cambridge University who spoke at our special Parliaments,…
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Revisiting the origins of the Kindertransport on its 80th anniversary
Today is the 80th anniversary of what is now known as the Kindertransport debate in the House of Commons. Ahead…
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‘For our honour’s sake we dare not keep them out’: Josiah Wedgwood and the Jews in Nazi Europe
Ahead of our conference and public lecture at Keele University on 22 November to mark the 75th anniversary of…
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Crucible of revolution: Parliament, Putney, and the politics of settlement in the Autumn of 1647
Ahead of tonight’s special edition of our IHR Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar in aid of UK Parliament Week (‘One person,…
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A night in Parliament: Militant Suffragettes and Parliament
We are delighted to post this guest blog in our Women and Parliament series from one of the public historians…
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Life before Parliament: the formative years of Josiah C. Wedgwood, 1872-1904
Last night at the new Newcastle-under-Lyme Library the History of Parliament’s Sammy Sturgess and Emma Peplow, along with British Academy / Wolfson…
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“The Cause of Decency against Indecency”: Lady Chatham and the 1788 Westminster election
The latest post from the Georgian Lords features a guest blog by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, biographer of the 2nd earl…
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Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood: new HLF funded project
Today’s blog is the first in the series about our activities in Staffordshire as part of our HLF funded project,…