Georgian Lords
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Comings and goings: the other houses of Downing Street
Previously on the History of Parliament blog we looked into the history of No.10 Downing Street, the famous residence of…
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Female Dukes
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley considers the cases of peerages held by women in…
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Portraits, patrons, and political networks in late Stuart and early Georgian England
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Amy Lim of St Hilda’s College,…
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‘Do you know where this miserable wretch lives?’: Challenging votes in Eighteenth-Century England
As the Government looks set to make the introduction of voter ID requirements a flagship policy for 2022, parallels can…
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Double Dutch: two Dutch courtiers and the British dynasties they founded
In this latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton considers the histories of two Dutch families who went…
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Do as you will? Behind the scenes of ‘the Hellfire Club’
As hospitality venues and social spaces in much of the UK reopen after lockdown this week, in today’s blog Dr…
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The Earl of Aberdeen and the Scottish Peerage By-election of 1721
With two by-elections to the Commons on the horizon, in the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley…
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‘Great Quarrels and Disputes’ or A Bun in the Oven? The Penshurst Claimant and the earldom of Leicester
In today’s blog Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our House of Lords 1715-1790 project, continues our look into the marriages…
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A Trojan horse in the House of Lords? The South Sea Company and the peerage
2020 marks the 300th anniversary of one of the most spectacular stock market crashes in British history when the South…