Links
-
Recent Posts
History of Parliament on Twitter
- ‘There were arguments without conclusion’. Sound familiar? These words aren’t about #brexit but Henry VII’s 1st par… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 55 minutes ago
- #HappyEaster ! Whether you’ve eaten too many Easter eggs or your family are driving you hopping mad 🐇 take some tim… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- RT @TheVictCommons: Born #onthisday 1819 Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller-Acland-Hood, MP for Somerset West 1859-68, a former captain in… 10 hours ago
History of Parliament on FaceBook
Archives
Categories
- 'The Story of Parliament'
- 16th Century history
- 17th Century history
- 18th Century history
- 19th Century history
- 20th century history
- Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood
- Conferences/seminars
- diplomatic history
- Early modern history
- economic history
- Election 2017
- Elections
- Electoral Reform
- England and Scotland
- Events
- Georgian Lords
- Health and Medicine
- History
- History of Parliament Trust
- historyofparliamentonline.org
- House of Lords 1660-1715
- James I to Restoration
- legal history
- Magna Carta & Simon de Montfort
- medieval history
- Medieval MP of the Month
- Migration
- military history
- Named Parliaments
- oral history
- Parliamentary buildings
- Party splits
- Patron Saints
- Politics
- Post-1945 history
- religious history
- Reporting Parliament
- Royal family
- Schools
- social history
- Uncategorized
- Unlikely Parliamentarians
- Women and Parliament
- World War I MPs
Meta
Tag Archives: House of Commons
Medieval MP of the Month: ‘Please Sir, can I have one more?’ The marriages and murders of the Harcourt brothers of Oxfordshire
Further tales of murder and scandal from Dr Hannes Kleineke for April’s medieval MP, or rather MPs of the Month. Today we hear of the murderous Harcourt brothers … Among the most distinguished families in late medieval Oxfordshire, the Harcourts … Continue reading
‘“The Parliament driver”: Walter Long, party politics and the whip
The recent stream of votes in the Commons surrounding Brexit has thrown into relief the practice of ‘whipping’ MPs into supporting their party line. Dr Vivienne Larminie of the House of Commons 1640-1660 section examines the emergence of an early … Continue reading
The will of the people? The Middlesex elections of 1769
250 years ago, in April 1769, the electors of Middlesex went to the polls: the third by-election they had experienced that year since one of their two MPs, John Wilkes, had been expelled from Parliament. Dr Robin Eagles, Editor of … Continue reading
Hansard at Huddersfield: Making democracy more searchable
Today’s post is a guest blog from Lesley Jeffries of the University of Huddersfield. Lesley explains the Hansard at Huddersfield project which aims to provide some interesting search facilities and visualisations of the results from the record of the UK … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, 20th century history, economic history, History, legal history, Politics, Post-1945 history, Reporting Parliament, social history, Women and Parliament
Tagged BAME, Black History, Corpus Linguistics, Digital history, Digital Humanities, featured, Hansard, Hansard at Huddersfield, House of Commons, House of Lords, Linguistics, Parliament and the press, Parliamentary Reporting, Parliamentary speeches, SAMUELS, Suffragette, Suffragist, University of Edinburgh, University of Huddersfield
Leave a comment
The Speaker and the same question: a view from the Victorian Commons
In today’s blog Dr Philip Salmon, editor of the 1832-1945 House of Commons project, explores some of the historical background behind recent Parliamentary rulings relating to Brexit. The rules governing UK parliamentary procedure, not surprisingly, don’t often get much public … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, History, Politics
Tagged Brexit, Commons procedures, Erskine May, featured, House of Commons, House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, Parliamentary procedure, Same Questions, Speaker Bercow, Speakers of the Commons, Thomas Erskine May, UK parliament procedure
2 Comments
When is a Parliament not a Parliament?
Dr Robin Eagles, Editor of the House of Lords 1660-1832 project kicks off our new series, ‘Named Parliaments’. Here, whilst highlighting a number of Named Parliaments in the seventeenth century, he explores the debate of parliament versus convention or assembly … Continue reading
Posted in 17th Century history, 18th Century history, Early modern history, James I to Restoration, Named Parliaments
Tagged Charles I, Charles II, Civil War, Convention, Glorious Revolution, House of Commons, House of Lords, Interregnum, James I, James II, Long Parliament, Lord Rockingham, Mary II, Named Parliaments, Nominated Assembly, Royal Naval College Greenwich, Samuel Blackwell, the 'Addled' Parliament, William and Mary, William III
1 Comment
Legislating for the United Kingdom’s four nations in the age of reform, 1830-1852
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from James Smith, a doctoral candidate at the University of York. He spoke at our previous session on 5 February about his research into a four … Continue reading
Posted in 18th Century history, 19th Century history, Conferences/seminars, legal history, Parliamentary buildings
Tagged British Isles, England, Great Reform Act, House of Commons, IHR seminars, Ireland, Legislation, Northern Ireland, Parliaments Politics & People seminar, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wales
Leave a comment
