Articles by Vivienne Larminie
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Peace at Last?
Earlier this autumn saw the 80th anniversary of the Munich agreement, marked by a ‘Peace for our Time’ blog from…
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Women behind the polls: the electoral patronage of Anne St John, countess of Rochester
Earlier this month the History of Parliament Trust with partners UK Parliament’s Vote 100 project and the Schools of Humanities…
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Becoming a citizen: naturalizations and denizations in the seventeenth century
In the context of discussion both of ‘the Windrush generation’ and the citizenship aspects of the Brexit negotiation, Dr Vivienne…
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Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women
As part of our Women and Parliament blog series to mark the centenary of the first women gaining the vote…
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Art, power and money: the sale of Charles I’s art collection
On Tuesday of this week – 30th January – we observed the anniversary of the regicide, the execution of Charles…
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Parliament, the French church and ‘illegal’ worship
Following the recent publication of her edited volume ‘Huguenot Networks’, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60…
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Reporting Parliament: Invasion scare in Sandwich?
In today’s ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week 2017, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60 Section,…
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St Bartholomew and the Huguenots
On this day 1572 Europe was shocked by the anti-Protestant violence in Paris which came to be known as the…
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George Thomson ‘with the wooden leg’
It’s Disability History Month, and in honour of this year’s theme, ‘War and Impairment: The Social Consequences of Disablement’, Dr…
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Street demonstrations, military interventions and governments toppled: not today’s Cairo but London, 1640s and 1650s
After the dramatic events in Egypt yesterday, commentators have been arguing over whether the change of government should be considered…
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Sir Isaac Wake and the case for war
With the crisis in Syria deepening, this week the Foreign Secretary and Speaker of the Commons have both promised that…
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‘The Long Parliament and State Formation’ colloquium report
Last month, our Commons, 1640-1660 section hosted a colloquium to discuss their research to date and to prepare for work…