Interregnum
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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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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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Seventeenth-century calls for English devolution
With the publication today of the Smith Commission recommending further powers for the Scottish Parliament, Philip Baker, Research Fellow on…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Jennifer Wells, Crafting empire: republican imperialism and parliamentary policy 1647-60’
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar is back for a new term. Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the…
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Union with Scotland – Cromwellian Style
Today’s post is the next in our series looking at Anglo-Scottish relations in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum.…
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The trial of Charles I: an early modern show trial?
To begin our day-by-day retelling of the trial of Charles I over on twitter, Philip Baker, Research Fellow on the…
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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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17th-century Oxford: Parliament goes back to school…
With Universities now back in the swing of a new term, Dr Robin Eagles takes a look at the disruption…
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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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In honour of Professor John Morrill
Last month, a collection of essays was published in honour of the leading early modern historian, Professor John Morrill: ‘The…
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Street demonstrations, military interventions and governments toppled: not today’s Cairo but London, 1640s and 1650s
After the dramatic events in Egypt yesterday, commentators have been arguing over whether the change of government should be considered…
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‘The Long Parliament and State Formation’ colloquium report
Last month, our Commons, 1640-1660 section hosted a colloquium to discuss their research to date and to prepare for work…