Diplomacy and International Relations
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‘Persons of Rank and Distinction’: negotiating the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
Last month @GeorgianLords joined with @HistParl to discuss a series of treaties from the 17th to the mid-18th centuries. In…
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Revisiting the origins of the Kindertransport on its 80th anniversary
Today is the 80th anniversary of what is now known as the Kindertransport debate in the House of Commons. Ahead…
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‘For our honour’s sake we dare not keep them out’: Josiah Wedgwood and the Jews in Nazi Europe
Ahead of our conference and public lecture at Keele University on 22 November to mark the 75th anniversary of…
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‘Matters far beyond their reach or capacity’: Parliament and foreign policy in 1621
As Parliament continues to debate Brexit, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-29 section examines how the House of Commons first…
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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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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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Reporting George I’s parliaments: a Prussian diplomat’s view
In the latest blog from The Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton continues his examination of foreign reporters of Parliamentary events…
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“A foreigner is therefore the most likely man to give an impartial account”?: French observers of the early eighteenth-century British Parliament
Published this week and edited by our own Dr Vivienne Larminie, Huguenot Networks, 1560–1780 The Interactions and Impact of a…
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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 Turning Point? The Declaration of Independence and the House of Lords
The latest Georgian Lords blog by Dr Charles Littleton, Senior Research Fellow of the Lords 1715-90 Section, considers the origins…
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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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Parliament and the Suez Crisis
Dr Emma Peplow explores the Suez Crisis seen through the eyes of the House of Commons chamber.