Category Archives: military history

‘A gallant death in the cause of freedom’: Percy Archer Clive (1873-1918)

Posted on April 5, 2018 by

Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-1868 Section continues with our blog series to commemorate those MPs who died during the First World War. Today we remember Percy Archer Clive of the Grenadier Guards and MP for South Herefordshire…  … Continue reading →

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Parliament, Politics and People: The politics of impressment, 1639-41: a Gloucestershire microhistory

Posted on March 13, 2018 by

Today’s blog is a summary from Sonia Tycko, PhD. candidate from Harvard University about the paper that she presented, as part of the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research,’The politics of impressment, 1639-41: a Gloucestershire … Continue reading →

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‘All that he hoped for and all that he had he gave’: Philip Kirkland Glazebrook (1880-1918)

Posted on March 7, 2018 by

Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at an unlikely former MP for Manchester South…   On 7th March 1918 Philip Kirkland Glazebrook was killed in action while serving with the army in … Continue reading →

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Parliament, the French church and ‘illegal’ worship

Posted on November 29, 2017 by

Following the recent publication of her edited volume ‘Huguenot Networks’, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60 Section, discusses how the Huguenot French church in Westminster offered MPs and peers an opportunity to breach their own legislation … Continue reading →

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‘His life was lovely and pleasant & he died in glory’: the Hon. Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882-1917)

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at the life of a former prime minister’s son. One of the first MPs to die while fighting in the First World … Continue reading →

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Reporting Parliament: Invasion scare in Sandwich?

Posted on November 14, 2017 by

In today’s ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week 2017, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Senior Research Fellow in the Commons 1640-60 Section, discusses the problem of ‘fake news’ during the Civil Wars… The concern of Parliament with the destabilising potential of false … Continue reading →

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Parliament & World War I

Posted on September 20, 2017 by

In partnership with the Parliamentary Archives alongside their current exhibition on Parliament and the First World War, we recently held events in Parliament exploring the institution during the war years… The Parliamentary Archives exhibition on Parliament and the First World … Continue reading →

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