Military history
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Parliament, Politics and People: The politics of impressment, 1639-41: a Gloucestershire microhistory
Today’s blog is a summary from Sonia Tycko, PhD. candidate from Harvard University about the paper that she presented, as part…
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‘All that he hoped for and all that he had he gave’: Philip Kirkland Glazebrook (1880-1918)
Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at an unlikely former MP…
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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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Parliament, the French church and ‘illegal’ worship
Following the recent publication of her edited volume ‘Huguenot Networks’, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60…
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‘His life was lovely and pleasant & he died in glory’: the Hon. Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882-1917)
Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at the…
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Reporting Parliament: Invasion scare in Sandwich?
In today’s ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week 2017, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60 Section,…
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Parliament and the First World War
In partnership with the Parliamentary Archives alongside their current exhibition on Parliament and the First World War, we recently held…
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“Hidden Gems”: Three Derby Museums and an unusual gift
In the latest blog from the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley considers a rare holding by the Derby Museum and…
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The Dismissal of Clarendon
350 years ago this month, the Lord Chancellor, Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, was dismissed following the disaster on the…
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‘A youth of radiant promise’: the Hon. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren (1886-1917)
Continuing our series on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix marks the centenary of the death…
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Chatham and the failure of English Politics
350 years ago this week the British navy suffered a disaster after the Dutch Raid on the Medway. In this…
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MPs in World War I: William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861-1917)
In the latest of our blogs on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr Kathryn Rix marks the centenary…