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Category Archives: social history
Dudley North, 3rd Lord North and the discovery of the waters of Tunbridge Wells
As part of our focus on health and medicine, Dr Ben Coates of the Lords 1604-29 Section considers the origins of the famous spa at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and ponders whether the parliamentary context might shed light on the date … Continue reading
Event review: Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, 22 March 2018.
Today’s blog is a summary of our afternoon event about Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, which was held before Easter at the Palace of Westminster … On 22 March 2018 the History of Parliament hosted an event … Continue reading
Why political history still matters
Dr Katrina Navickas from the University of Hertfordshire was the keynote speaker at the History of Parliament Trust and Durham University’s Parliaments and Popular Sovereignty conference, which was held at the People’s History Museum in Manchester in November 2017. She … Continue reading
Posted in 18th Century history, 19th Century history, social history
Tagged Chartism, Grenfell, John Wilkes, March, Peterloo Massacre, Petitioning, Petitions, Press, Protest
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Public Petitioning and Parliament, 1689-1760
Today’s blog from Philip Loft, currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is part of our week of social media activity about all things petitioning, protest and franchise reform. This is ahead of our public event on the … Continue reading
A medieval MP’s Valentine’s Day Letters
Dr Hannes Kleineke of the 1422-1504 Commons explains how the commercial holiday we now recognise as St Valentine’s Day was observed by a young lover in the fifteenth century… It is a little known fact that the earliest known Valentine’s … Continue reading
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Tagged John Paston, Love letter, Norfolk, poetry, Romance, Sir Thomas Brewes, Valentine, Valentine's Day, Women
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Parliament, the French church and ‘illegal’ worship
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
Naoroji: the life of the first Indian MP
Last month we were delighted to celebrate the life and work of Dr Dadabhai Naoroji at an event in Portcullis House, Westminster, in collaboration with the Zoroastrian All Party Parliamentary Group and the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (ZFTE). 2017 … Continue reading
