Articles by Stephen Roberts
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The ‘Story of Parliament’: Civil War leaders
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Stephen Roberts, ‘The uses of a parliamentary diary in the making of a royalist: the case of Henry Townshend of Worcestershire’
Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, reports on his paper given at our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and…
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Christmas Day in the Commons, 1656
For those of you still working in Christmas week, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the…
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An Early Welsh Manifesto
To celebrate St David’s Day tomorrow, Dr Stephen Roberts, the editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, discusses a text used in…
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Parliament and Christmas during the Civil War
One of the worst insults today thrown at Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans in the mid-17th Century House of Commons…
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Marriage in the English Revolution
As same-sex marriage legislation receives royal consent today, Dr Stephen Roberts, the editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, looks back…
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Col. Thomas Rainborowe: ‘The poorest he that is in England hath a right to live as the greatest he’
Today’s In Our Time programme on Radio Four focuses on the Putney Debates 0f 1647. Dr Stephen Roberts sheds more…
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Welsh Electoral Arithmetic, 1640-1660
As today is St David’s day, and in preparation for the upcoming ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar in which Rhodri…
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The power of the Long Parliament’s Committees
Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, shares some of the new research they are doing into the…
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6 December, 1648: Pride’s Purge
Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the HOP’s House of Commons 1640-60 project, explains the importance of “Pride’s Purge” which took…