Articles by Stephen Roberts
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Rights, Privileges and Just Liberty: Exeter and Parliament, 1600-1660
In today’s blog we return to our Local and Community History Month exploration of the historic constituency of Exeter. This…
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An MP and an Epidemic in Civil War London
As we face challenges unfamiliar in modern times, our director, Dr Stephen Roberts, looks back at one parliamentary diarist’s response…
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Sitting at Christmas: getting business done, 1643
In a previous blog our director, Dr Stephen Roberts, explored legislation by which parliamentarians of the 1640s tried to promote…
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The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World
Today we celebrate the launch of our new publication, The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World, which has…
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St David’s Day: ?The First Welsh Republican
For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for another blog from our resident Welshman and History…
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A tribute to former Director of the History of Parliament Trust, Valerie Cromwell
In this blog our current Director, Dr Stephen Roberts and Editor of the Commons 1422-1504 project, Dr Linda Clark pay…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part Two)
Continuing from yesterday’s blog ‘St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)’, today Dr Stephen Roberts, the History…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)
In honour of St. David, the patron saint of Wales and St. David’s Day today, Dr Stephen Roberts, our Director,…
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The importance of royal pardons in Restoration England.
The UK is celebrating the centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed some…
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Introducing…our new Director
Today’s blog is the first from Stephen Roberts in his new position as Director of the History of Parliament… It…
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Unlikely Parliamentarians 5: William Neast, Civil War religious radical
This week is Parliament Week, a programme of events and activities that connects people across the UK with Parliament and…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 4: Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the Parliament making, Parliament breaking MP
In the final of his four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses parliament’s most famous…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 3: John Pym (1584-1643) the ubiquitous but invisible MP
In the third of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses writing the biography…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography. The Commons 1640-1660. Part 2: Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602-50), the self-fashioning MP
In the second of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the problems associated…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 1: Methods
In the first of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the History’s research…