18th Century history
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In search of Arcadia: visiting the 18th-century garden
Recent government restrictions paired with a bout of sunny weather have seen more of us head into the garden to…
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‘As in your wisdom you shall think meet’: Remote working in Parliament in the early modern period
In this special collaborative blog, members of the History of Parliament’s two House of Lords sections, Dr Andrew Thrush, editor…
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A Queen in Isolation: Mary Beatrice of Modena
On 7 May 1718, James II’s widow, Mary of Modena, died in exile at the palace of St Germain-en-Laye. Displaced…
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Early modern Parliament and Coffee
The History of Parliament team is very fond of a cup of coffee to help power through a day of…
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Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Open University: The Black and Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics, 1750-1850
We are pleased to announce that the History of Parliament Trust is participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership…
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‘Where the disease is desperate, the remedy must be so too’: debating the 1721 Quarantine Act
The latest blog for the Georgian Lords considers the topical issue of quarantine. In the 1720s the government was forced…
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The Princess Mother: Augusta, Princess of Wales, the power behind the throne?
Today, on International Women’s Day, Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our Lords 1715-1790 project, looks at the life of Augusta,…
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‘The only place that can heighten my enjoyment of my friends’: The literary coterie at Wrest Park
In 1740, the duke of Kent unusually made his granddaughter, Jemima Campbell, the benefactor of his estate at Wrest Park…
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Exhibition review: Georgian Delights: Life during the Reign of George IV exhibition review
Last week Senior Research Fellow on the House of Lords 1715-90 project, Dr Stuart Handley, headed off on a field…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Max Skjönsberg from the University of Liverpool revisits his…
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Stand and deliver: sex, scandal and the Beaufort divorce case
In the middle of the 18th century polite society was both shocked and entertained by the lurid details following on…
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A Trojan horse in the House of Lords? The South Sea Company and the peerage
2020 marks the 300th anniversary of one of the most spectacular stock market crashes in British history when the South…