Georgian
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Duchesses in the Gallery: women watching the eighteenth-century House of Commons
This month’s installment of our ‘Women and Parliament’ blog series comes from the HPT’s Dr Paul Seaward, who is currently…
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‘Skulking on the Poop’: the court martial of Captain Henry Rufane 1745
Today’s blog for Mental Health Awareness Week is from Dr Robin Eagles of the Lords 1660-1832 Section. He describes the controversy…
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‘A noble sight’: the Prince’s Chamber and Royal Lyings in State in the Eighteenth Century
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, we are delighted to welcome a guest blog from Dr Rachel Wilson,…
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Why political history still matters
Dr Katrina Navickas from the University of Hertfordshire was the keynote speaker at the History of Parliament Trust and Durham…
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Public Petitioning and Parliament, 1689-1760
Today’s blog from Philip Loft, currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is part of our week…
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What Shall we do with the Children?
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley considers the difficulties one peerage family experienced in providing…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series – Speaking in the Newspaper: Richard Brinsley Sheridan in April 1798
Today’s blog is from Prof. Robert W Jones, who is professor of eighteenth-century studies in the School of English at the…
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Reporting the House of Lords 1660-1832
The latest blog from the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles reports back from last month’s conference of the British Society…
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‘By God my Lord, if you can bear this you are the strongest man in England’: the appointment of ‘Harley’s Dozen’ new peers in the winter of 1711/12
Current rumours suggest that the government may be on the point of boosting the numbers of Conservative peers in the…
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Georgian Christmas Recesses
For Parliamentarians in the early Georgian period, Christmas was not infrequently interrupted by the business of politics. Dr Charles Littleton…
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‘Anxious for the welfare of his people’: the passage of the Royal Marriages Act (1772)
Last week we welcomed the news of the forthcoming marriage of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle. This is notable as…
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Acquitted with three huzzas: the impeachment of Robert Harley, earl of Oxford
In today’s ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week 2017, Dr Robin Eagles considers the value of manuscript news accounts of…