ICHRPI
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International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions.
Commission website: https://ichrpi.info/
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
Commission website: https://ichrpi.info/
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
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On 16 December, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking at this year's History of Parliament Annual Lecture!
His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:
His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:
Annual Lecture: Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51
Join us for the History of Parliament Annual Lecture for 2025, given by Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
On 16 December, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking at this year's History of Parliament Annual Lecture!
His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:
His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:
As we approach election year in 🏴, why not delve deeper into the history of Scottish parliamentary elections with this article by Nicola Cowmeadow from volume 33 (2013) of #PER which focuses on the role of noblewomen in the electoral process:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As we approach election year in 🏴, why not delve deeper into the history of Scottish parliamentary elections with this article by Nicola Cowmeadow from volume 33 (2013) of #PER which focuses on the role of noblewomen in the electoral process:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
BBC News - Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament
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Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament
Unlike Westminster, Holyrood does not have a mechanism allowing constituents to recall their representatives.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
BBC News - Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
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Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
Newly published online in #PER this week is Christos Papastylianos' (University of Nicosia) investigation of revisions to the Greek constitution in the early 20th century:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization
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#ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Newly published online in #PER this week is Christos Papastylianos' (University of Nicosia) investigation of revisions to the Greek constitution in the early 20th century:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization
As it's bonfire night in the UK, why not indulge in some contextual reading on the English Parliament under James VI & I, 1604-10 by way of our 2019 Emile Lousse Prize winner, Deborah Kilroy (PER, vol. 41 no. 1 (2021), pp. 1-23):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As it's bonfire night in the UK, why not indulge in some contextual reading on the English Parliament under James VI & I, 1604-10 by way of our 2019 Emile Lousse Prize winner, Deborah Kilroy (PER, vol. 41 no. 1 (2021), pp. 1-23):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a recent #OpenAccess article in #PER, Adriano Giuliani (Australian National University, Canberra) undertakes a broad investigation of the concept of sortition throughout political history, from ancient Greece, through medieval Europe and onto modern democracies.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In a recent #OpenAccess article in #PER, Adriano Giuliani (Australian National University, Canberra) undertakes a broad investigation of the concept of sortition throughout political history, from ancient Greece, through medieval Europe and onto modern democracies.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Published today in #PER is Dr Coleman Dennehy's touching tribute to Dr Bríd McGrath (1958-2025). Bríd was a renowned scholar of early modern Ireland and parliaments & was latterly a #ICHRPI member. Bríd will be sorely missed by family, friends & colleagues.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Published today in #PER is Dr Coleman Dennehy's touching tribute to Dr Bríd McGrath (1958-2025). Bríd was a renowned scholar of early modern Ireland and parliaments & was latterly a #ICHRPI member. Bríd will be sorely missed by family, friends & colleagues.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In one of our newest #OpenAccess articles,
@allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled:
'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88'
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled:
'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88'
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In one of our newest #OpenAccess articles,
@allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled:
'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88'
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled:
'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88'
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As our conference is in full flow in Sibiu 🇷🇴, why not take a deep dive into the C19th Transylvanian estates & parliament with this article from vol. 42 of PER (2022):
Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'
Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'
September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As our conference is in full flow in Sibiu 🇷🇴, why not take a deep dive into the C19th Transylvanian estates & parliament with this article from vol. 42 of PER (2022):
Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'
Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'
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Now available in 'Transactions' bit.ly/465CiLC
New 'special section' of 4 articles on 'Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700', with an Introduction by @paulinakewes.bsky.social, Paul Seaward and Jim Van der Meulen 1/3
New 'special section' of 4 articles on 'Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700', with an Introduction by @paulinakewes.bsky.social, Paul Seaward and Jim Van der Meulen 1/3
July 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#ICYMI, earlier in the week we looked at the career of Nancy Astor over on our #TikTok channel.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Click below to see the video:
#WomensHistoryMonth
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For #WomensHistoryMonth, find out about the interesting- and controversial- career of Nancy Astor, the first female MP to sit in the House of Commons.
#WHM
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#WHM
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This Women’s History Month, learn about the controversial career of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat as an MP in Westminster. #WHM #womenshistorymonth #HistParl #historytok #parliament #p...
TikTok video by History of Parliament
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March 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#ICYMI, earlier in the week we looked at the career of Nancy Astor over on our #TikTok channel.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Click below to see the video:
#WomensHistoryMonth
Click below to see the video:
We have a new article in #PER online on #representative institutions in late medieval 🇵🇹
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (University of Coimbra), 'The ‘irregular’ Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 and Lisbon in 1439, in the context of the medieval Portuguese Cortes'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (University of Coimbra), 'The ‘irregular’ Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 and Lisbon in 1439, in the context of the medieval Portuguese Cortes'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We have a new article in #PER online on #representative institutions in late medieval 🇵🇹
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (University of Coimbra), 'The ‘irregular’ Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 and Lisbon in 1439, in the context of the medieval Portuguese Cortes'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (University of Coimbra), 'The ‘irregular’ Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 and Lisbon in 1439, in the context of the medieval Portuguese Cortes'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This conference is coming up this Friday & it looks to be a corker!
See below for further details.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
#ParliamentaryHistory #PeopleandParliament #Representation
See below for further details.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
#ParliamentaryHistory #PeopleandParliament #Representation
March 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This conference is coming up this Friday & it looks to be a corker!
See below for further details.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
#ParliamentaryHistory #PeopleandParliament #Representation
See below for further details.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
#ParliamentaryHistory #PeopleandParliament #Representation
More fresh #GovernmentalHistory published in this #PER article which is a reminder of the global scope of the #ICHRPI.
Pham Duc Anh (Vietnam National University) compares government under the Nguyen dynasty to earlier institutions in Vietnam & China
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Pham Duc Anh (Vietnam National University) compares government under the Nguyen dynasty to earlier institutions in Vietnam & China
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March 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
More fresh #GovernmentalHistory published in this #PER article which is a reminder of the global scope of the #ICHRPI.
Pham Duc Anh (Vietnam National University) compares government under the Nguyen dynasty to earlier institutions in Vietnam & China
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pham Duc Anh (Vietnam National University) compares government under the Nguyen dynasty to earlier institutions in Vietnam & China
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A closely related #OpenAccess article to the one below has recently been published on #PER online.
Laura Doak, another member of the Scottish Privy Council Project team, investigates the Privy Council's registers through the lens of #materiality.
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Laura Doak, another member of the Scottish Privy Council Project team, investigates the Privy Council's registers through the lens of #materiality.
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March 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A closely related #OpenAccess article to the one below has recently been published on #PER online.
Laura Doak, another member of the Scottish Privy Council Project team, investigates the Privy Council's registers through the lens of #materiality.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Laura Doak, another member of the Scottish Privy Council Project team, investigates the Privy Council's registers through the lens of #materiality.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We're so pleased to be supporting the upcoming conference, 'Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space', at the University of Warwick.
Find out more, including how to register, via our website:
Find out more, including how to register, via our website:
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February 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We're so pleased to be supporting the upcoming conference, 'Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space', at the University of Warwick.
Find out more, including how to register, via our website:
Find out more, including how to register, via our website:
Yet more new #ParliamentaryHistory published this week in #PER online.
Silke Hensel (unicologne.bsky.social) discusses the gendering of debates on political representation and representative institutions in 19th century Mexico.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Representation #Politics #Gender
Silke Hensel (unicologne.bsky.social) discusses the gendering of debates on political representation and representative institutions in 19th century Mexico.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Representation #Politics #Gender
February 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Yet more new #ParliamentaryHistory published this week in #PER online.
Silke Hensel (unicologne.bsky.social) discusses the gendering of debates on political representation and representative institutions in 19th century Mexico.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Representation #Politics #Gender
Silke Hensel (unicologne.bsky.social) discusses the gendering of debates on political representation and representative institutions in 19th century Mexico.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Representation #Politics #Gender
New article in #PER online.
Martín O. Castro (University of Buenos Aires) analyses female petitioning and political culture in Argentina between the late-19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ParliamentaryHistory #Petitioning #HistoricalResearch
Martín O. Castro (University of Buenos Aires) analyses female petitioning and political culture in Argentina between the late-19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ParliamentaryHistory #Petitioning #HistoricalResearch
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New article in #PER online.
Martín O. Castro (University of Buenos Aires) analyses female petitioning and political culture in Argentina between the late-19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ParliamentaryHistory #Petitioning #HistoricalResearch
Martín O. Castro (University of Buenos Aires) analyses female petitioning and political culture in Argentina between the late-19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ParliamentaryHistory #Petitioning #HistoricalResearch
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Funded PhD opportunity with the University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament on Irish MPs in the 19th century House of Commons. Application deadline 5 March 2025. For further details, see the links here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/n...
NEW PhD Studentship on Irish MPs available
The University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament are offering a fully-paid PhD studentship on Irish MPs in the Victorian Commons. Deadline for applications: 5 March 2025. Full details of t…
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February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Funded PhD opportunity with the University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament on Irish MPs in the 19th century House of Commons. Application deadline 5 March 2025. For further details, see the links here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/n...
🚨 New #OpenAccess article in #PER.
Alastair Mann of the University of Stirling (& director of publications for the #ICHRPI) investigates the 1708 demise of the Scottish Privy Council in the context of a rising culture of party in politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alastair Mann of the University of Stirling (& director of publications for the #ICHRPI) investigates the 1708 demise of the Scottish Privy Council in the context of a rising culture of party in politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🚨 New #OpenAccess article in #PER.
Alastair Mann of the University of Stirling (& director of publications for the #ICHRPI) investigates the 1708 demise of the Scottish Privy Council in the context of a rising culture of party in politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alastair Mann of the University of Stirling (& director of publications for the #ICHRPI) investigates the 1708 demise of the Scottish Privy Council in the context of a rising culture of party in politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We have a new book review out in #PER online.
Our journal editor, John Young (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), assesses Karin Bowie's (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) most recent monograph: 'Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707' (Cambridge UP, 2020).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our journal editor, John Young (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), assesses Karin Bowie's (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) most recent monograph: 'Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707' (Cambridge UP, 2020).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We have a new book review out in #PER online.
Our journal editor, John Young (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), assesses Karin Bowie's (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) most recent monograph: 'Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707' (Cambridge UP, 2020).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our journal editor, John Young (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), assesses Karin Bowie's (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) most recent monograph: 'Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707' (Cambridge UP, 2020).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This is taking place tomorrow (Tues) - there's still time to sign up to join online.
We're looking forward to hearing Dr Caitlin Kitchener speak next Tuesday at the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar about early 19thC radical material culture (including a rare surviving Peterloo banner). Find out more and how to join online here: historyofparliament.com/2025/01/22/p... #19thC
Producing, Performing and Curating Radicalism: How was radical material culture produced, used and curated in early 19th century Britain? - The History of Parliament
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Caitlin Kitchener. On 28 January Caitlin will discuss the production, use
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January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is taking place tomorrow (Tues) - there's still time to sign up to join online.
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Remember the (Geordie) Alamo.
My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Inevitably the package will be dismissed […] as inadequate and grudging’: regionalism, ambivalence and the road to the North East of England referendum defeat in 2004
The New Labour Government of 1997 to 2010 oversaw considerable constitutional reforms, particularly in relation to the United Kingdom’s territorial constitution. While devolution to Scotland and Wa...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Remember the (Geordie) Alamo.
My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....