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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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Clarendon’s impeachment
Impeachment is a procedure rarely used in the British Parliament these days, but it is a procedure of historic importance,…
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Voices from our oral history project: Sir Teddy Taylor
Last month we were sad to hear the news of campaigning backbencher Sir Teddy Taylor’s death. In this blog we…
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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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Waiting to Succeed: Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751)
Last month the Prince of Wales became the longest-serving holder of that title. The role of Prince of Wales was…
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Knock, knock. Who’s there? Black Rod: the Early Centuries
Last week Parliament announced they are advertising for a new Black Rod. In today’s blog, as Dr Hannes Kleineke, Senior…
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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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When every vote counted: what minority government in the 1970s meant for MPs
With Parliament back and Theresa May’s government trying to pass controversial legislation, Emmeline Ledgerwood, one of our oral history project…
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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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St Bartholomew and the Huguenots
On this day 1572 Europe was shocked by the anti-Protestant violence in Paris which came to be known as the…
