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Parliament and St George’s Day in the early seventeenth century
Following previous blogs to mark St David’s Day and St Patrick’s Day, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the Lords 1604-1629 Section…
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The Conservative Party and British Indians, 1975-1990
Today’s blog is from our 2017 undergraduate dissertation competition winner, Jilna Shah of Cambridge University for her thesis on the…
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Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women
As part of our Women and Parliament blog series to mark the centenary of the first women gaining the vote…
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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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MPs as art collectors in the 1650s
As the Royal Academy’s Charles I: King and Collector exhibition comes to a close, Andrew Barclay, Senior Research Fellow with…
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‘A gallant death in the cause of freedom’: Percy Archer Clive (1873-1918)
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-1868 Section continues with our blog series to commemorate those MPs who died…
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‘A little door to get in, and a great crowd without’: how to get elected to Parliament in early Georgian Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is still renowned as a poet, commentator on Ottoman society, from when she accompanied her husband…
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Life before the RAF: the young air services and Parliament
The 1 April 2018 marks 100 years since the formation of the Royal Air Force, a particularly poignant anniversary for…
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Women MPs in the 1990s
This month’s blog for the Women and Parliament series as part of our activities in celebration of the centenary of…
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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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Irish Disputes at Westminster
To launch our new James I to Restoration blog, and also mark St Patrick’s Day, Dr Patrick Little of the…
