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Professor Chris Kyle, from Syracuse University, explains how close people could get to Parliament in the seventeenth century.
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The Independents were arguably the most powerful and successful of the political factions in the Long Parliament. They played a major role in some of Parliament’s boldest political initiatives and, consequently, in helping to win the civil war against Charles I. The creation of the Long...
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The Hanover Club was a society of prominent and active Whigs dedicated in particular to championing support for the Hanoverian succession, and for the Whig cause generally, both in Parliament and the constituencies. The club had come into existence by the spring of 1712, though there is evidence...
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The duke of Cambridge was the English title bestowed in 1706 on George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover (and future British king, George II). Although the prince did not actually set foot on British soil until his arrival with his father in September 1714, his name was frequently at...
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We think of Parliament before the publication of its proceedings was generally allowed in the 1770s as a secretive place. But here Jason Peacey, from University College London, talks about how widely information about what was said and done in the House of Commons was distributed throughout the...
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The last of our articles for Parliament Week, 2012. Dr Paul Seaward discusses the passing of the bill of attainder against Sir John Fenwick, a jacobite conspirator, that would lead to his exectuion for treason in what many considered to be a politically-motivated murder.
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The fifth of our articles for Parliament Week, 2012. Dr Vivienne Larminie discusses press regulation in the 17th century, and what prompted Milton to publish his 'Areopagitica' in 1644.
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In our third article for Parliament Week 2012, Dr Andrew Thrush discusses the parliamentary debates on James VI & I's proposed union between England and Scotland.
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Our first article for Parliament Week, 2012: born on this day, 1600, Charles Stuart, later Charles I. Dr Andrew Thrush discusses Charles' early life and relationship with parliament.
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In 1707, under the terms of the Treaty of Union, England and Scotland became a single state – the United Kingdom of Great Britain – and the parliaments at Westminster and Edinburgh were replaced by a single ‘Parliament of Great Britain’. The arrangements for establishing the new...
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The sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales from typhoid fever on 6 November 1612 sent shock waves through the Court of James VI and I. The unexpected death at the age of eighteen of the heir to the thrones of England and Scotland was a major blow to the Stuart dynasty, just as the equally...
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