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Review of the Year 2022
2022 has been a bumper year for the History of Parliament, as we settled into a ‘new normal’ of events both online and in person, launched new projects and publications, and continued to grow our...
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The Peerage and the Coronation of George I
The death of Queen Anne on 1 August 1714 heralded the arrival of a new dynasty in Britain – literally – the kingdom had to await the arrival of the new king from Hanover on 18 September. Continuing...
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‘The most solemn, magnificent, and sumptuous ceremony’: The coronation of...
Contemporaries were agreed that the coronation of George II and Queen Caroline on 11 October 1727 was spectacular. In our second Coronation-themed blog, Dr Charles Littleton looks back on the event...
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‘The buzz, the prattle, the crowds, the noise, the hurry’: the Coronation of...
Royal celebrations in the Georgian period were renowned for their mixture of stately formality and farcical mix-ups. In the third of our series on 18th-century coronations, we turn to that of George...
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“Take care, or you will break my shins with this damned axe”
The trials of Lords Balmerino, Cromartie and Kilmarnock (Summer 1746) The summer is normally a period for Parliament to go into recess, and for MPs and members of the Lords to take some time off. On...
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The smallest room in the House
Women have been accessing the Palace of Westminster for centuries, yet sanitary facilities have not always been provided. Chloe Challender, a PhD candidate working on a collaborative project between...
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Dutch Diet Diversity: Comparing Seventeenth-Century Dutch Provincial...
Ahead of next Tuesday’s online Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Jim van der Meulen of Ghent University. On 27 February between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., Jim will discuss...
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“Take care, or you will break my shins with this damned axe”: The trials of...
The summer is normally a period for Parliament to go into recess, and for MPs and members of the Lords to take some time off. On extraordinary occasions, though, Parliament has been known to sit...
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Bishop Jewel and the lost archdeaconry
Many Elizabethan bills which failed to become Acts of Parliament don’t now survive, and little is known about them except their titles. But two lost bills to annex Dorset to the diocese of Salisbury...
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The smallest room in the House
Women have been accessing the Palace of Westminster for centuries, yet sanitary facilities have not always been provided. Chloe Challender, a PhD candidate working on a collaborative project between...
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Dutch Diet Diversity: Comparing Seventeenth-Century Dutch Provincial...
Ahead of next Tuesday’s online Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Jim van der Meulen of Ghent University. On 27 February between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., Jim will discuss...
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Great Parliamentary Gardeners- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Compared
The beginning of May marks the Royal Horticultural Society’s National Gardening Week, but many of the Parliamentarians in our volumes didn’t need extra encouragement to tend to their gardens. In this,...
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Two Gardening Giants- Joseph Chamberlain and Michael Heseltine
In the second of two blogs for National Gardening Week, here guest blogger Dr Jonathan Denby takes a closer look at two MPs with a passion for gardening, who served in the Cabinet one hundred years...
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The House of Commons Chamber and the Politics of Seating
Parliament will be officially opened this week and debates will begin once again in the House of Commons. But with the Labour party winning such a large majority in the 2024 General Election, some of...
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‘The most surprising instance of a change of fortune raised by a man...
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton, considers the career of the 1st duke of Chandos, a man who rose to become one of the most flamboyant peers of the early 18th century...
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The day Parliament was invaded
In the summer of 1780 London, and several other cities across England, experienced some of the worst rioting they had seen in a generation, following the presentation of a petition to Parliament...
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Dining in the Palace of Varieties: institutional culture, society living and...
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Professor Paul Seaward, former Director of the History of Parliament. On 29 October he will discuss Dining in the Palace...
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The town of Shrewsbury and the Wars of the Roses: The campaigns of 1459-61
Dr Simon Payling, of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explores the political allegiance of the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury during the Wars of the Roses. While, during the Wars of the Roses, the...
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