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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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And more reviews from:

Matthew Roberts
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And @richardtoye.bsky.social
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Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. By Martin Spychal. London: University of London Press/Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives. 2024. xviii, 348 pp. Hardback. £90, paperback £29.99, e‐book open access. ISBN 9781915249258
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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And don’t forget a number of excellent reviews by:

Hannes Kleineke
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Alex Beeton
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Patrick Little
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And Robin Eagles
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St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster. Edited by Tim Ayers, J.P.D. Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith, and Caroline Shenton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2024. xxiv, 368pp. Hardback. £115.00. ISBN 9781837651634.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Doctoral student @chloechallender.bsky.social has delivered an impressive study of how women experienced accessing Parliaments which were hostile to their very presence in the nineteenth century.

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Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament
In 1788, women were explicitly excluded as visitors to the house of commons. From the 1810s, small numbers sought to return to the ventilator, a cramped attic above the chamber used by women to view ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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@samoxey.bsky.social’s winning entry of our 2024 essay prize provides brilliant insights and analysis into the 1945 Motherwell by-election, in which the SNP won their first Westminster seat.

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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Ben Sayle has re-centred Unionist constitutional philosophy in analysing the opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill in 1911-14.

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‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–1914
This article argues for the importance of the Unionists’ constitutional philosophy in the party's opposition to the third Irish Home Rule Bill. In the aftermath of the 1911 Parliament Act, which remo...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Early career scholar @jamesepeate.bsky.social has examined the role of the press and key political personalities, like Sheridan, Cobbett, and Burdett, in the 1806 election.

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‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806
In the late early 18th and early 19th centuries the Westminster constituency became notorious for its contested elections amongst its free and radical electorate, as well as for its longstanding MPs ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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D.W. Hayton has written an account of party conflict in the parliamentary borough of Kilkenny in the early seventeenth century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Party Conflict in an Irish Parliamentary Borough in the Early 18th Century: The Origins of the Kilkenny Corporation Act of 1717
The surviving documentation from the prolonged political conflict in Kilkenny which ended in 1717 enables a close investigation of the nature of party divisions in an Irish parliamentary borough in t...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Harry Lewis provides important insights into how Protestant planters in St Kitts exploited the Glorious Revolution to take over the colonial legislature.

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The Glorious Revolution, Colonial Legislatures and Franco‐Jacobite Forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1688–1727*
The Glorious Revolution had a profound impact on the English overseas territories in the Caribbean. In 1689, a series of Jacobite risings took place in the Leeward Islands seeking to reverse the acce...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Alex Beeton has written about educational reform, parliamentary committees, and the 1649-50 parliamentary visitation of Winchester College.

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‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform, Parliamentary Committees, and the Visitation of Winchester College, 1649–50*
This article offers a new angle for analysing educational reform during the English Revolution. Although many aspects of the advancement of learning between 1640 and 1660 have been discussed, this ar....
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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First up is Samuel Lane on episcopal attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III.

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Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III*
Edward III's reign is thought to have marked an important moment in the history of the episcopate's relationship with parliament, marking the point at which prelates increasingly neglected assemblies...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
And more reviews from:

Matthew Roberts
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And @richardtoye.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. By Martin Spychal. London: University of London Press/Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives. 2024. xviii, 348 pp. Hardback. £90, paperback £29.99, e‐book open access. ISBN 9781915249258
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
And don’t forget a number of excellent reviews by:

Hannes Kleineke
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Alex Beeton
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Patrick Little
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And Robin Eagles
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster. Edited by Tim Ayers, J.P.D. Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith, and Caroline Shenton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2024. xxiv, 368pp. Hardback. £115.00. ISBN 9781837651634.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Doctoral student @chloechallender.bsky.social has delivered an impressive study of how women experienced accessing Parliaments which were hostile to their very presence in the nineteenth century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament
In 1788, women were explicitly excluded as visitors to the house of commons. From the 1810s, small numbers sought to return to the ventilator, a cramped attic above the chamber used by women to view ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
@samoxey.bsky.social’s winning entry of our 2024 essay prize provides brilliant insights and analysis into the 1945 Motherwell by-election, in which the SNP won their first Westminster seat.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Ben Sayle has re-centred Unionist constitutional philosophy in analysing the opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill in 1911-14.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–1914
This article argues for the importance of the Unionists’ constitutional philosophy in the party's opposition to the third Irish Home Rule Bill. In the aftermath of the 1911 Parliament Act, which remo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Early career scholar @jamesepeate.bsky.social has examined the role of the press and key political personalities, like Sheridan, Cobbett, and Burdett, in the 1806 election.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806
In the late early 18th and early 19th centuries the Westminster constituency became notorious for its contested elections amongst its free and radical electorate, as well as for its longstanding MPs ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
D.W. Hayton has written an account of party conflict in the parliamentary borough of Kilkenny in the early seventeenth century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Party Conflict in an Irish Parliamentary Borough in the Early 18th Century: The Origins of the Kilkenny Corporation Act of 1717
The surviving documentation from the prolonged political conflict in Kilkenny which ended in 1717 enables a close investigation of the nature of party divisions in an Irish parliamentary borough in t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Harry Lewis provides important insights into how Protestant planters in St Kitts exploited the Glorious Revolution to take over the colonial legislature.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Glorious Revolution, Colonial Legislatures and Franco‐Jacobite Forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1688–1727*
The Glorious Revolution had a profound impact on the English overseas territories in the Caribbean. In 1689, a series of Jacobite risings took place in the Leeward Islands seeking to reverse the acce...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Alex Beeton has written about educational reform, parliamentary committees, and the 1649-50 parliamentary visitation of Winchester College.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform, Parliamentary Committees, and the Visitation of Winchester College, 1649–50*
This article offers a new angle for analysing educational reform during the English Revolution. Although many aspects of the advancement of learning between 1640 and 1660 have been discussed, this ar....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
First up is Samuel Lane on episcopal attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III*
Edward III's reign is thought to have marked an important moment in the history of the episcopate's relationship with parliament, marking the point at which prelates increasingly neglected assemblies...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
parlhistjournal.bsky.social
And there are a number of articles on medieval parliaments and taxation:

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The Origins of Tunnage and Poundage: Parliament and the Estate of Merchants in the 14th Century
By establishing the dates and political context of all early grants of the subsidy of tunnage and poundage, this study provides new evidence for the relationship between parliament and the so-called ....
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November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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In 2021, an essay by the late Professor Norman Gash on Robert Peel’s economic achievement was published posthumously:

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The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6*
Norman Gash (1912–2009), the leading authority on the ‘age of Peel’, died on 1 May 2009, having left instructions to his daughters that the bulk of his private correspondence and personal papers shou...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM