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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Gwilym Dodd, ‘Common petitions; Commons’ petitions; whose petitions? The supplicatory discourse of Parliament, c.1340-1450′
‘Parliaments, politics and people’ returned for the summer term with Gwilym Dodd’s paper on petitions in medieval parliaments. Dr Paul…
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Lord Chancellors – learned in the law?
Our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, reflects on the Lord Chancellor’s legal experience… Michael Gove was sworn in as Lord Chancellor…
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How does it feel to be a new MP?
This week at Westminster MPs elected for the first time will still be finding their feet. With such a large…
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The ‘Election’ of the Speaker in Fifteenth-Century Parliaments
Today Parliament returns, and the new assembly’s first job is to elect a new Speaker. Dr Simon Payling, Senior Fellow…
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Early Modern ideas about Parliament’s origins
Our series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament continues today. Dr Paul Cavill, Lecturer in…
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The youngest MP since…?
Following the election of Mhairi Black last week, many of you have asked us about young MPs! Over to our…
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Predicting the polls: a Victorian perspective
As the UK goes to the polls today, here’s the last in our series of blogs on elections through the…
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‘Elections and how to fight them’: electioneering a century ago
We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today. Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Victorian Commons,…
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‘Horsham is Lady Irwin’s Borough’: the power of the 18th Century political widow
We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today, with an example of the power aristocratic women could…
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Electoral Independence in Tudor England
As the election campaign continues, so does our series of blogposts on historic campaigning. Today, all constituencies are contested and…
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The Parliamentary Delegation to Buchenwald Concentration Camp – 70 Years On
On this day in 1945, a group of MPs arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp to report first hand on the…
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MPs in World War I: Dr. John Esmonde (1862-1915)
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the third MP who died fighting in the First World War, and the second…
