Parliamentary History

Papers
(The median citation count of Parliamentary History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Afterword1
Cover Image, Volume 40, Issue 31
The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017*1
Chronological Index1
Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century*1
Cover Image, Volume 40, Issue 20
NOTE ON BIOGRAPHIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION0
English Episcopal Acta 46: Rochester 1235–1318. Edited by PhilippaHoskin. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2022. 304 pp. hardback. £65.00. ISBN 9780197267363.0
‘A rancour and a passion would be introduced into politics’: Perceptions of the Woman MP in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain*0
‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England*0
The Tudor Sheriff. A Study in Early Modern Administration. By JonathanMcGovern. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xvii, 297 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9780192848246.0
Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*0
The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James's in the First Half of the 18th Century0
‘That Gleaming Sword of Satire’1: Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid‐Victorian City0
English MPs: Legislators and Servants of their Constituents, 1750–1800. By MichaelMcCahill. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xi, 271 pp. hardback. £85.00. ISBN. 9781350332270.0
INTRODUCTION0
The Commons diary of Oley Douglas, 10 Mar.–29 June 17140
Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul. Edited by Jessica A.Lutkin and J.S.Hamilton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2022. xi, 307pp. £65.000
ABBREVIATIONS0
Render Unto Caesar. Ecclesiastical Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne. By R. BarryLevis. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. 2022. x, 235 pp. Hardback £70.00; paperback £25.00. ISBN 9780227177812; 97800
Hobhouse, O'Connor and the Nottingham Election of 18470
Index0
The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784*0
Index0
APPENDIX 2: MEMBERS OF THE LORDS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
ABBREVIATIONS0
Royalism, Religion and Revolution. Wales, 1640–1688. By Sarah WardClavier. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xii, 266 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9781783276400.0
Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England. By W.Mark Ormrod. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xii, 148 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9783030452193.0
Peterloo. By RobertPoole. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. xxiii, 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780198783466.0
The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787): Gambling and the Law in Later Georgian Britain0
Notes on Contributors0
Cover Image, Volume 41, Issue S10
Invading France, Invading Boroughs: Henry VI's MPs Brought to Life0
‘Sir Madam’: Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters0
Notes on Contributors0
Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland*0
Wentworth's ‘eye of the Court’: Sir George Radcliffe's management of the Irish parliaments of Charles I's reign.*0
The Norman Conquest in English History. Volume I: A Broken Chain? By GeorgeGarnett. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. xix, 470 pp. £70.00. ISBN 9780198726166.0
0
0
Issue Information0
Issue Information0
A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 17050
The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth‐century Britain. By MaxSkjönsberg. (Ideas in Context.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xv, 373 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISB0
The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century*0
Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century. By S.J.Drake. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2019. xxii, 490 pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781783274697.0
Notes on Contributors0
Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics0
Issue Information0
The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443‐1509) from the Archives of St John's College, Cambridge. Edited by SusanPowell. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2022. xi0
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century. A Distinctive Politics? By RichardTaylor. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. ix, 270 pp. Paperback £25.00. ISBN 9781526154965.0
Cover Image, Volume 43, Issue 30
The House of Commons notebook of Pryse Campbell MP, March–April 17560
The Jacobite Duchess: Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649–1731. By FrancesNolan. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xvi, 257 pp. + illus. Hardback £50.00. ISBN 9781783276141.0
Norman Gash: Political Historian0
Anglo‐Irish Politics, 1680–1728: The Correspondence of the Brodrick Family of Surrey and County Cork. Volume One: 1680–1714. Edited by DavidHayton and MichaelPage. (Parliamentary History: Texts & 0
Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800–340
The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689–1976: The Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh Estates. By John E.Davies. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2019. x, 342 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978170
Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records. Edited by K.J.Kesselring and NatalieMears. London: University of London Press. 2021. xi, 220 pp. Hardback £40.00; online .pdf free. ISBN 970
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
Dangerous Seats: Parliamentary Violence in the United Kingdom. By Eugene L.Wolfe. Stroud: Amberley. 2020. 368 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781445689821.0
A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604–290
Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528–48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority*0
The Rise of New Boroughs and the Decline of Electoral Localism: The Evolving Composition of the House of Commons, 1386–1558*0
Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380*0
0
Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London0
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government0
Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art, and Politics after the Glorious Revolution (1689–1714). By JulieFarguson. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xviii, 380 pp. £75.00. ISBN 97817832754410
0
Cover Image, Volume 42, Issue S10
The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660–1715. The Communication of Sin. By Alex W.Barber. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. xvii, 333 pp. £75.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781783274175.0
Issue Information0
Leaps and Light Shows: Visual Politics in the Edwardian Mass Press, 1900–100
PART III: NEWSPAPER REPORTS0
Peers and Politics, c.1650–1850: Essays in Honour of Clyve Jones. Edited by Richard A.Gaunt and D.W.Hayton. Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2020. viii, 238 pp. Pa0
PART IV: PETITIONS, CASES AND PAPERS0
Issue Information0
Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*0
Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti‐Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621*0
Excommunication in Thirteenth‐Century England: Communities, Politics, and Publicity. By FelicityHill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. x, 344 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9780198840367.0
Cover Image, Volume 42, Issue 20
Index0
Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649–1659. By ImogenPeck. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xiv, 232 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9780198845584.0
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY0
NOTE ON EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES0
Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*0
‘Imperial Westminster’: Colonial Statesmen and British Parliamentary Politics, 1880s–1920s*0
Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390–1520. By GordonMcKelvie. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2020. xii, 249 pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781783274772.0
Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising*0
Elections in 18th‐Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation0
‘Old and unfit for other service?’ Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–17600
‘A Place To Speak One's Conscience In’: Disciplines of Debate in the Protectorate Parliaments, 1654–90
George III. The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch. By AndrewRoberts. London: Allen Lane. 2021. xiii, 758 pp. Hardback £35.00. ISBN 9780241413333.0
‘Playing at Parliament’: The Rise and Fall of Popular Parliamentary Debate in Britain, c.1865–85*0
The Discovery of D'Ewes's Long Parliament Diary0
Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892–19120
What is Parliamentary History Now?0
Letters of Sir James Dunbar, 5 Dec. 1710–17 Mar. 17110
Notes on Contributors0
The Making of Oliver Cromwell. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2021. xxi, 400 pp. £25.00. Hardback. ISBN 9780300257458.0
Cover Image, Volume 41, Issue 20
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament. Edited by EmmaPeplow and PriscilaPivatto. London: Bloomsbury. 2020. x, 273 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781350089266.0
Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act0
‘United Britons & Irishmen’: Cato Street, Proclamations, and the Insurrectionary Tradition, 1798–1820*0
The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire. By William J.Bulman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xv, 296 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108842495.0
Insolent Proceedings: Rethinking Public Politics in the English Revolution. Essays in Honour of Ann Hughes. Edited by PeterLake and JasonPeacey. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2022. xxii, 250
Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party*0
General Introduction0
Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol's Elections in 1812*0
Edinburgh's Local Liberal Party and the Political Crises of 1885–6*0
Inside the Commons Committee of Secrecy: George Treby's Shorthand and the Popish Plot0
Frances Harris (1950–2021): A Memoir0
The Non‐Racial Franchise, Constitutionalism, and the Mother of Parliaments in South Africa, 1880–1922*0
0
0
Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609*0
INTRODUCTION0
Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*0
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
Cover Image, Volume 42, Issue 30
Cover Image, Volume 43, Issue 20
0
Issue Information0
Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–18900
Issue Information0
The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain*0
A Métis Parliament: Louis Riel and Constitutional Debates in Red River*0
0
Edmund Sexten Pery: The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteenth‐century Ireland. Edited by David A.Fleming. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. 310 pp. hardback £60.00. ISBN 9781801510875.0
Cover Image, Volume 41, Issue 10
Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament10
0
Enlightened Oxford. The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth‐Century Britain and Beyond. By NigelAston. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xxiii, 819pp. Hardback. £120.00. 0
0
ABBREVIATIONS0
‘The Last of the Tories’: Political Selections from the Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle‐under‐Lyne, 1839–1850. Edited by Richard A.Gaunt. Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell. 2021. Parliamentary History T0
APPENDIX 1: THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE SURRENDER OF WOOD'S PATENT0
The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant 1660–1696. By JamesWalters. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. 232 pp. hardback. £75.00. ISBN 97810783276042.0
Cover Image, Volume 41, Issue 30
The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922–1949. By MartinO'Donoghue. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2019. xv, 279 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781789620306; 9781789624489 (0
The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War0
0
Issue Information0
Settler Colonialism and Parliamentary Democracy – Histories and Legacies*0
PART II: THE DIARIES0
The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth‐Century England. By MatthewHefferan. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xiv, 336 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781783275649.0
The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis0
The London Jubilee Book 1376–1387: An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133–157. Edited by Caroline M.Barron and LauraWright. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for the London Record S0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
APPENDIX 2: BRODRICK FAMILY MEMBERS AND CONNECTIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
Writing Settler Constitutions, Debating Imperial Responsibility, and Managing the Conscience of Parliamentary Empire, c.1860–1910*0
Eveline Cruickshanks (1926–2021): An Appreciation0
(Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III0
Index0
NOTE AND DOCUMENT0
Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered*0
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in The National Archives, XXXV: 1 Edward V to Richard III, 1483–1485. Edited by GordonMcKelvie. Woodbridge: The Boydell Pre0
Cover Image, Volume 42, Issue 10
Introduction0
Index0
LIST OF FIGURES AND PLATES0
Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises. Edited by DavidThackeray and RichardToye. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xiii, 327 pp. £99.99. ISBN 97830304666633.0
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War. Journals and Papers of J.A. Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911–1915. Edited by CameronHazlehurst and ChristineWoodland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xxiii, 0
APPENDIX 1: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
The Letters of Thomas Smith, 27 Jan. 1711–[?19 May 1714]0
The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century0
ABBREVIATIONS0
Index0
0
‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion*0
The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653. By MarkkuPeltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. ix, 263 pp. hardback. £75.00. ISBN. 9781009212045.0
Index0
Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th‐Century English Parliamentary Elections0
Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I*0
The Men of 1924: Britain's First Labour Government. By PeterClark. London: Haus Publishing. 2023. 296pp. Hardback. £20.00. ISBN 9781913368812, eISBN 9781913368811.The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of0
CORRESPONDENCE 1722–17280
Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700. By K.J.Kesselring and TimStretton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xiii, 195 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9780192849953.0
Proportional Representation and the Birth of the Australian Nation0
APPENDIX B: NEWCASTLE'S MOVEMENTS0
The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist. Volume 1: 1865–1887. Edited by AndrewHobbs. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 2022. xlix, 673 pp. paperback. £25.95. ISBN 9781800642362.0
Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters*0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage*0
Issue Information0
Age of Promises. Electoral Politics in Twentieth Century Britain. By DavidThackeray and RichardToye. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi, 236 pp. Hardback £65.00. ISBN 9780198843030.0
Letters of Mungo Graham, 23 Nov. 1710–22 Feb. 17110
Issue Information0
Issue Information0
Issue Information0
Preface0
Ireland's English Pale, 1470–1550: The Making of a Tudor Region. By Steven G.Ellis. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xvii, 200 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9781783276608.0
0
0
THE DIARIES0
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter. Edited by Michael J.Braddick and PhilWithington. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2017. xiv, 300
The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912*0
The Man Who Enriched – and Robbed – the Tories0
On Laudianism: Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I. By PeterLake. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xx, 610
The Great Pillar: The Political Career of Lord Thurlow 1731–1806. By BenGilding. Oxford: New College Library & Archives. 2023. New College Library & Archives Publications no. 5. xiii, 338pp. P0
Abbreviations0
0
APPENDIX A: NEWCASTLE'S PUBLISHED LETTERS TO THE PRESS0
Continuatio Eulogii: The Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum, 1364–1413. Edited and translated by ChrisGiven‐Wilson. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. 0
The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain. By NicholasPopper. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2024. xi, 343pp. Paperback. £20
Re‐assessing the Conservative Anti‐EEC Rebellion of 1971–2*0
Issue Information0
Reform and its Complexities in Modern Britain: Essays Inspired by Sir Brian Harrison. Edited by BruceKinzer, Molly BaerKramer, and RichardTrainor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. ix, 309 pp. Ha0
APPENDIX 4: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain0
Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81*0
CLYVE JONES (1944–2024)0
PART I: THE STORY0
Edward I: New Interpretations. Edited by AndyKing and Andrew M.Spencer. York: York Medieval Press. 2020. x, 193pp. £65.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781903153727.0
Cover Image, Volume 43, Issue S10
Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians0
Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810*0
Issue Information0
Cover Image, Volume 44, Issue 10
Attlee. A Life in Politics. By NickThomas‐Symonds. 2nd edn. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xxiv, 328pp. Paperback. £14.99. ISBN 9780755636136.0
The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6*0
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX0
Standing Orders and Precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the 17th and 18th Centuries0
Partisan Politics: Looking for Consensus in Eighteenth‐Century Towns. By JonRosebank. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2021. ix, 296 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781905816675.0
Respectability and the Silences of Settler Democracy: John Barr Becomes a Parliamentary Man in Progressive New Zealand*0
Law and the Idea of Liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the Present. Edited by PeterCrooks and ThomasMohr. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. 244 pp. hardback. £50.00. ISBN 9781846827402.0
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–20210
‘No distinction exists as to religion, profession, or sex’: Imperial Reform and the Electoral Culture of the East India Company's Court of Proprietors, 1760–840
0
Index0
‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81*0
Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election*0
Cover Image, Volume 40, Issue S10
‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*0
‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England0
A Primrose Path: The Gilded Life of Lord Rosebery's Favourite Son. By MartinGibson. London: Arum Press. 2020. xiv, 273 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781916265400.0
Issue Information0
Issue Information0
The Agincourt Campaign of 1415. The Retinues of the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. By Michael P.Warner. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021. xi, 239 pp. Hardback £65.00. ISBN 9781783276363.0
Cover Image, Volume 43, Issue 10
Chronological Index0
‘There will be no shortage of Cabinet ministers taking part in the Scottish referendum campaign. The same is not true in Wales’: New Labour, Old Struggles, and the Advent of Welsh Devolution*0
‘Populist Constitutionalism’ and the Unionist Party during the 1911 House of Lords’ Crisis0
0.097329139709473