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Impeachments and the British Parliament
Every year, the History of Parliament holds two competitions for schools and one for university students, for the best undergraduate dissertation…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Nigel Aston ‘Out of retirement: Lord Lansdowne and opposition politics in the 1790s’
At our last ‘parliaments, politics and people’ seminar, Dr Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) spoke on William Petty, Lord Lansdowne…
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The Treaty of Paris, John Wilkes and North Briton Number 45
On 23 April 1763, John Wilkes published his famous ‘North Briton No.45’, attacking George III and his Prime Minister, the…
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Prime Ministers’ Funerals
A look back at the different Prime Ministers who received public funerals… Tomorrow former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will…
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Parliamentarians in the courts…
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Old Bailey Online (happy anniversary!) Dr Ruth Paley, editor of the Lords 1660-1832…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Andrew Thompson (Queens’ Cambridge) ‘George II, Power and Parliament’
Dr Robin Eagles reports back from our latest ‘Parliament, politics and people‘ seminar… Neither of the first two Hanoverian monarchs…