Social history
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Dudley North, 3rd Lord North and the discovery of the waters of Tunbridge Wells
As part of our focus on health and medicine, Dr Ben Coates of the Lords 1604-29 Section considers the origins…
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Becoming a citizen: naturalizations and denizations in the seventeenth century
In the context of discussion both of ‘the Windrush generation’ and the citizenship aspects of the Brexit negotiation, Dr Vivienne…
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Event review: Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, 22 March 2018.
Today’s blog is a summary of our afternoon event about Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, which was…
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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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St Piran’s Day: Tin, Tricks and Terror in 15th-century Cornwall
Continuing with our patron saint series, today we hear from Dr Hannes Kleineke of the Commons 1422-1504 Section about the patron…
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A medieval MP’s Valentine’s Day Letters
Dr Hannes Kleineke of the 1422-1504 Commons explains how the commercial holiday we now recognise as St Valentine’s Day was…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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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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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…