17th Century history
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“Get a haircut”Celebrating the career of Lord Chancellor Cowper
10 May 2023 marked the 300th anniversary of the death of William Cowper, Earl Cowper, a rarity among political lawyers…
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Post-Mortem by Print: Reflections on the Death of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
In the latest Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments blog, guest blogger William Poulter, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds, discusses how…
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Women in charge? Parliament’s female Housekeepers and Necessary Women, c. 1690-1877
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Mari Takayanagi, senior archivist in the UK Parliamentary…
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The Civil War and the First Age of Party
May 2023 saw the publication of the History of Parliament House of Commons 1640-1660 volumes. This research has uncovered that…
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Time and the Hard Night’s Day in the Long Parliament
During the 1640s the parliamentary day grew longer and longer until all-night sittings became a regular feature in the House…
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‘There is not a Minister on this Side, that knows any Thing I either write or intend, excepting the Master of the Rolls and Sir George Radcliffe’: Sir Thomas Wentworth’s reliance on his cabal in the Irish Parliaments of Charles I’s reign
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Charlotte Brownhill of the Open University. On…
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The Voice of the Parliamentary Diarists, 1640-60
May 2023 saw the publication of the History of Parliament’s The House of Commons 1640-1660 volumes. One of the main…
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The Caroline court and the political breakdown of 1641-42
In the latest Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments blog, guest blogger Dr Fraser Dickinson considers the changes in the fortunes of the circles…
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Soft power and stigma: Illegitimate children and the History of Parliament
In 2022, Kate Gibson, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, published her book Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma…
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Changing sides: ‘turncoats’ in the English Civil Wars
Throughout the English Civil Wars, it was common for people to switch sides between Parliamentarians and Royalists; these people earned…
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The Lords and the Putney Debates
Following the victory of Parliament over King Charles I in the first English Civil War, the New Model Army, Charles,…
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Clerks of the Commons: More than just scribes
The clerks of the Commons in the 17th century have often been depicted as people who simply recorded the events…