Military history
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‘One of the wyrste bataylys that ever came to Inglonde, and unkyndyst’: The battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the background and significance of the battle of Shrewsbury, which took place…
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‘Good for nothing and lived like a hog’: the destructive obsession of Francis, Lord Deincourt
Dr Patrick Little of the 1640-60 Lords section, explores the strange life of a peer who valued money above everything.…
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From bills to bullets: Spring 1775 and the approach to war in America
A recent article in this series [Background to the American Revolution] looked at the debates in the House of Lords…
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The Recording Angel and the expression of English Welsh identities during the First World War
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Professor Wendy Ugolini of the University of Edinburgh.…
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A Yorkist Family during the Wars of the Roses: the Devereuxs of Weobley in Herefordshire
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the fortunes of one particularly loyal Yorkist family during the Wars of…
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The Making of a Marcher Town: Ludlow and the Wars of the Roses
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the crucial role of the Shropshire town of Ludlow during the Wars…
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The Last of the Jacobites: Henry Benedict
Henry Benedict, Cardinal York (1725-1807), born 300 years ago this March, was the last member of the royal family to…
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Background to the American Revolution
As part of a new infrequent series on the American Revolution and its connection to Parliament, Dr Robin Eagles explores…
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Robert Burns in Edinburgh: peers, patrons, and politics
In the wake of Burns Night, it is worth considering how the patronage of a small number of Scottish nobles…
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The town of Shrewsbury and the Wars of the Roses: The campaigns of 1459-61
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the political allegiance of the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury during the…
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Lord Saye and Sele and the Battle for Oxford
In our first ‘Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments‘ article of 2025, Editor of the 1640-60 House of Lords section, Dr David Scott,…
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Unrest in the West: The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy
On this day, 1499, Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne, was hanged for treason, bringing an end to…