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Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: Coleman Dennehy, ‘Dublin, Westminster, and appellate jurisdiction in early modern Ireland’
At our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Coleman Dennehy (University College, Dublin) spoke on ‘Dublin, Westminster,…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: Pitt and Fox
Last year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the anniversary…
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’
In the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) spoke on ‘‘Big data’…
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‘Very grievous and unconstitutional’? The repeal of the (American) Stamp Act (1766)
250 years ago this month Parliament was debating the fate of the Stamp Act – the law which proved dangerously…
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Parliament and the Gulf War in 1991
In today’s guest blog, Teemu Hakkinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), who has researched the royal prerogative in decisions to go…
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Restored, Renewed, Relocated: Parliament and its buildings
Before Christmas Rebekah Moore, holder of an AHRC collaborative doctoral award with the History of Parliament and Institute of Historical…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: The office of Prime Minister in the 18th Century
Earlier this year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the…
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Review of the year 2015
2015 has been a very busy year here at the History of Parliament Trust! Of course much of this has…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Sarah Ward, ‘”I am nothing discuraged to present you with the Parliament newse”: parliamentary news, personal interest and political action in north-east Wales, 1640-88’
Our final ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of the year took place last week, as Sarah Ward of Oxford University,…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Robin McCallum, ‘English Towns & Parliamentary Representation, 1295-1350’
At our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar Robin McCullum, of Queen’s University Belfast, gave a paper on ‘English Towns…
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The Eligibility of Constance Markievicz
On 14th December 1918, Countess Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) became the first woman to be elected to the UK Parliament, but…
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Was Wilberforce the only influential parliamentarian abolitionist? Certainly not…
Joining the History of Parliament on work experience during the summer, A level student Georgina Hands came across the Trust…
