Parliamentary History Journal
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We publish peer-reviewed research covering the history of parliamentary institutions in Britain and Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, and the legislatures of British colonies before independence.
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The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open!
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
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@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
For details 👇
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@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
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Great to see our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social's book Mapping the State reviewed by Matthew Roberts as 'a work of impressive scholarship which deserves to be widely read'. Mapping the State is available on Open Access here: uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping...
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great to see our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social's book Mapping the State reviewed by Matthew Roberts as 'a work of impressive scholarship which deserves to be widely read'. Mapping the State is available on Open Access here: uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping...
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Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
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Great to see this excellent article and well-deserved proxime accessit for the Parliamentary History prize 2024 in print! Especially brilliant is the new source describing women's experiences of the 'ventilator' in the Commons.
After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament
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December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great to see this excellent article and well-deserved proxime accessit for the Parliamentary History prize 2024 in print! Especially brilliant is the new source describing women's experiences of the 'ventilator' in the Commons.
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My article on the Motherwell by-election is now available to read in @parlhistjournal.bsky.social
It explores the reasons for Dr. Robert McIntyre's victory and how he became embroiled in a sponsorship saga.
It explores the reasons for Dr. Robert McIntyre's victory and how he became embroiled in a sponsorship saga.
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My article on the Motherwell by-election is now available to read in @parlhistjournal.bsky.social
It explores the reasons for Dr. Robert McIntyre's victory and how he became embroiled in a sponsorship saga.
It explores the reasons for Dr. Robert McIntyre's victory and how he became embroiled in a sponsorship saga.
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
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Really enjoyed writing this reflection on the Ilford North contest, which has been considered an important 'stepping-stone' to the 1979 victory. I argue here that the by-election was simply a return to the Conservative column of a formerly safe seat. Read more here:
In 2022, @marccollinson.bsky.social critically reassessed the Conservative victory in the 1978 Ilford North by-election:
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Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election*
Reductive and teleological ‘path to power’ myths continue to underpin explanations of Margaret Thatcher's first general election success. The by-elections that eroded the Callaghan government's major...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Really enjoyed writing this reflection on the Ilford North contest, which has been considered an important 'stepping-stone' to the 1979 victory. I argue here that the by-election was simply a return to the Conservative column of a formerly safe seat. Read more here:
And, as it’s Budget week, we have a whole host of articles on all things budgets, tax, and government finance:
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
And, as it’s Budget week, we have a whole host of articles on all things budgets, tax, and government finance:
Just two days to go!
The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open!
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
For details 👇
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@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
For details 👇
🧵1/4
@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Just two days to go!
#OTD in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister. Naturally, we have published many articles on this period, here are just a few:
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#OTD in 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister. Naturally, we have published many articles on this period, here are just a few:
#OTD 6 Nov. 1707 Queen Anne delivered the speech from the throne to the first Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. D. W. Hayton of @qubhistory.bsky.social explores Scottish representation in the first British House of Commons here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Adjustment and Integration: The Scottish Representation in the British House of Commons, 1707–14*
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November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#OTD 6 Nov. 1707 Queen Anne delivered the speech from the throne to the first Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. D. W. Hayton of @qubhistory.bsky.social explores Scottish representation in the first British House of Commons here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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We're going to be raising a glass to John Wilkes on his 300th birthday at 17:57.
Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty!
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Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty!
#HistParl
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're going to be raising a glass to John Wilkes on his 300th birthday at 17:57.
Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty!
#HistParl
Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty!
#HistParl
Today is the 300th birthday of the 18th century radical John Wilkes. We are making 3 articles from our journal about Wilkes #OpenAcess for the next two months. Peter D.G. Thomas explores the aftermath of Wilkes's election as the MP for Middlesex in 1768: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The House of Commons and the Middlesex Elections of 1768–1769
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October 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Today is the 300th birthday of the 18th century radical John Wilkes. We are making 3 articles from our journal about Wilkes #OpenAcess for the next two months. Peter D.G. Thomas explores the aftermath of Wilkes's election as the MP for Middlesex in 1768: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The latest edition of Parliamentary History will be landing through our subscriber’s letterboxes in the next few weeks! Please do subscribe to get access to these and the many fascinating articles in our archives.
Other fascinating articles to get stuck into include:
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
We’re delighted that @jamesepeate.bsky.social is one of the early career contributors to the next edition of Parliamentary History on ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806.
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Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
October 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The latest edition of Parliamentary History will be landing through our subscriber’s letterboxes in the next few weeks! Please do subscribe to get access to these and the many fascinating articles in our archives.
Other fascinating articles to get stuck into include:
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
We’re delighted that @jamesepeate.bsky.social is one of the early career contributors to the next edition of Parliamentary History on ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806.
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Other fascinating articles to get stuck into include:
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
Samuel Lane on ‘Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III’
Alex Beeton on ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform and the Long Parliament, 1642–53
We’re delighted that @jamesepeate.bsky.social is one of the early career contributors to the next edition of Parliamentary History on ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806.
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Parliamentary History
Click on the title to browse this journal
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September 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We’re delighted that @jamesepeate.bsky.social is one of the early career contributors to the next edition of Parliamentary History on ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806.
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
You’ll have plenty of articles to tuck into, with fascinating and original subjects including educational reform during the Long Parliament, ‘Constitutional Alienation’ during the 1911-14 Ulster Crisis, and the 1945 Motherwell by-election.
Next month’s edition of Parliamentary History will be the first mostly composed of articles by doctoral and early career scholars, with four drawn from winning entries to our annual essay prize.
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
You’ll have plenty of articles to tuck into, with fascinating and original subjects including educational reform during the Long Parliament, ‘Constitutional Alienation’ during the 1911-14 Ulster Crisis, and the 1945 Motherwell by-election.
Next month’s edition of Parliamentary History will be the first mostly composed of articles by doctoral and early career scholars, with four drawn from winning entries to our annual essay prize.
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Next month’s edition of Parliamentary History will be the first mostly composed of articles by doctoral and early career scholars, with four drawn from winning entries to our annual essay prize.
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
There’s still plenty of time to enter this year’s competition: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
1/ Our editor Richard Gaunt has written a chapter on the 1828 County Clare by-election for @iaindale.bsky.social's new book. Daniel O'Connell, a Catholic, was elected to the House of Commons in a major development in the Catholic emancipation campaign. We will have a special issue in 2029
An early present in the post today...
Delighted to take possession of this latest brilliant collection by @iaindale.bsky.social
There may just be a mention of John Wilkes at the beginning...
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Delighted to take possession of this latest brilliant collection by @iaindale.bsky.social
There may just be a mention of John Wilkes at the beginning...
#HistParl
September 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1/ Our editor Richard Gaunt has written a chapter on the 1828 County Clare by-election for @iaindale.bsky.social's new book. Daniel O'Connell, a Catholic, was elected to the House of Commons in a major development in the Catholic emancipation campaign. We will have a special issue in 2029
@chloechallender.bsky.social will have an article on women's modes of entry to the early nineteenth-century parliament in our next issue, coming in October. More to follow!
Looking forward to day 2 of the @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference online. Especially looking forward to the parliamentary themed papers from @chloechallender.bsky.social and @satisfactory20.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
@chloechallender.bsky.social will have an article on women's modes of entry to the early nineteenth-century parliament in our next issue, coming in October. More to follow!
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I've just completed the index for @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social's book 'The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII - an important and very comprehensive work of parliamentary history, coming soon from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-ear...
September 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I've just completed the index for @jonathanmcgovern.bsky.social's book 'The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII - an important and very comprehensive work of parliamentary history, coming soon from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-ear...
A good opportunity to reflect on all the informative and interesting subjects covered by In Our Time over the years, especially on Parliamentary history! The Great Reform Act episode is one of our favourites, what are yours?
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September 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A good opportunity to reflect on all the informative and interesting subjects covered by In Our Time over the years, especially on Parliamentary history! The Great Reform Act episode is one of our favourites, what are yours?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry to the Parliamentary History Essay Prize!
The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open!
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
For details 👇
🧵1/4
@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal!
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025!
For details 👇
🧵1/4
@histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry to the Parliamentary History Essay Prize!
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For #WorldPhotographyDay we are revisiting our blog on a pioneering photographer who was also an Irish MP. Edward King Tenison drew on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot (also an MP) to develop the use of paper negatives. Find out more about him here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/m...
MP of the Month: Edward King Tenison
One of our earliest Victorian Commons blogs looked at the career of William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography, who sat briefly as Whig MP for Chippenham, 1832-5. Our MP of the Month is …
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August 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
For #WorldPhotographyDay we are revisiting our blog on a pioneering photographer who was also an Irish MP. Edward King Tenison drew on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot (also an MP) to develop the use of paper negatives. Find out more about him here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/m...
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#OnThisDay 1834 the Radical MP Joseph Hume argued that a new House of Commons should be built, complaining of over-crowding and the ‘pestilential air’. Find out more about the old House of Commons in our post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/l...
‘Like herrings in a barrel’: the chamber of the House of Commons prior to 1834
In this new series of blogs on the Palace of Westminster, we look at the three different debating chambers occupied by the MPs who sat in Parliament between 1832 and 1868, beginning with the Common…
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August 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#OnThisDay 1834 the Radical MP Joseph Hume argued that a new House of Commons should be built, complaining of over-crowding and the ‘pestilential air’. Find out more about the old House of Commons in our post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/l...