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(The TQCC 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–2021	1
Why the History of Parliament Has Not Been Written*	1
Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century^*	1
The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James's in the First Half of the 18th Century	1
‘High Politics’ and its Intellectual Contexts^*	1
Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London	1
The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century	1
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
Writing Scottish Parliamentary History, c.1500–1707	0
INTRODUCTION	0
ABBREVIATIONS	0
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	0
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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, 30	0
General Introduction	0
The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain^*	0
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. Pa	0
Wentworth's ‘eye of the Court’: Sir George Radcliffe's management of the Irish parliaments of Charles I's reign.^*	0
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
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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
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APPENDIX 2: BRODRICK FAMILY MEMBERS AND CONNECTIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 1705	0

‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion^*	0
The House of Commons notebook of Pryse Campbell MP, March–April 1756	0
APPENDIX 1: THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE SURRENDER OF WOOD'S PATENT	0
The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6^*	0
A.F. Pollard*	0
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Dangerous Seats: Parliamentary Violence in the United Kingdom. By Eugene L.Wolfe. Stroud: Amberley. 2020. 368 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781445689821.	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
APPENDIX 2: MEMBERS OF THE LORDS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th‐Century English Parliamentary Elections	0
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Parliamentary History: An Oblique Glance^*	0
NOTE ON BIOGRAPHIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION	0
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
Peterloo. By RobertPoole. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. xxiii, 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780198783466.	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
Chronological Index	0
The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017^*	0
William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution	0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	0
‘A Place To Speak One's Conscience In’: Disciplines of Debate in the Protectorate Parliaments, 1654–9	0
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. Ha	0
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Introduction	0
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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
‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain	0
Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters^*	0
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. P	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, 25	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
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 Pre	0
APPENDIX A: NEWCASTLE'S PUBLISHED LETTERS TO THE PRESS	0
Preface	0
Index	0
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‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England^*	0
Index	0
Index	0
Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered*	0
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
Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising^*	0
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Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act	0
Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol's Elections in 1812*	0
English MPs: Legislators and Servants of their Constituents, 1750–1800. By MichaelMcCahill. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xi, 271 pp. hardback. £85.00. ISBN. 9781350332270.	0
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	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
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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

Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti‐Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621*	0
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 97	0
An Irish Party and the British Parliament: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Parnell and His Party	0
ABBREVIATIONS	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. £2	0
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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
Index	0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	0
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, 61	0
The Commons diary of Oley Douglas, 10 Mar.–29 June 1714	0
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The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912^*	0
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APPENDIX 4: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
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CLYVE JONES (1944–2024)	0
‘Sir Madam’: Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters	0
John Brooke and the Namierite Succession*	0
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‘That Gleaming Sword of Satire’¹: Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid‐Victorian City	0
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
The Making of Oliver Cromwell. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2021. xxi, 400 pp. £25.00. Hardback. ISBN 9780300257458.	0
Standing Orders and Precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the 17th and 18th Centuries	0
Attlee. A Life in Politics. By NickThomas‐Symonds. 2nd edn. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xxiv, 328pp. Paperback. £14.99. ISBN 9780755636136.	0
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
‘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 T	0
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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
Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*	0
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
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PART IV: PETITIONS, CASES AND PAPERS	0
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Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party*	0
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 97817	0
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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 9781783275441	0
King Pym and his ‘Happy, Scrappy Jester’	0
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Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528–48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority*	0
Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810^*	0
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government	0
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
Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election^*	0
What is Parliamentary History Now?	0
The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis	0
Notes on Contributors	0
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
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‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England	0
A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604–29	0
Hobhouse, O'Connor and the Nottingham Election of 1847	0
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. xi	0
Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland^*	0
Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380^*	0
APPENDIX B: NEWCASTLE'S MOVEMENTS	0
The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War	0
PART III: NEWSPAPER REPORTS	0
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Enoch Powell, Parliament and Europe	0
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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
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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
THE DIARIES	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
Preface	0
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Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians	0
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Afterword	0

Elections in 18th‐Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation	0
Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81^*	0
Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892–1912	0
Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England. By W.Mark Ormrod. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xii, 148 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9783030452193.	0
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
‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81*	0
Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage^*	0
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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
Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609^*	0
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
NOTE AND DOCUMENT	0
CORRESPONDENCE 1722–1728	0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	0
Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–1890	0
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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 of	0
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 S	0
Letters of Mungo Graham, 23 Nov. 1710–22 Feb. 1711	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
Frances Harris (1950–2021): A Memoir	0
Norman Gash: Political Historian	0
‘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
Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics	0
Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*	0
Re‐assessing the Conservative Anti‐EEC Rebellion of 1971–2^*	0
The Rise of New Boroughs and the Decline of Electoral Localism: The Evolving Composition of the House of Commons, 1386–1558^*	0
Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800–34	0
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Royalism, Religion and Revolution. Wales, 1640–1688. By Sarah WardClavier. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xii, 266 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9781783276400.	0
Constitutionalists, Despots, Whigs, and Revisionists: Tudor Parliamentary History in the 20th Century	0
The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787): Gambling and the Law in Later Georgian Britain	0
‘Old and unfit for other service?’ Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–1760	0
Leaps and Light Shows: Visual Politics in the Edwardian Mass Press, 1900–10	0
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Notes on Contributors	0
Edinburgh's Local Liberal Party and the Political Crises of 1885–6^*	0
The Man Who Enriched – and Robbed – the Tories	0
Invading France, Invading Boroughs: Henry VI's MPs Brought to Life	0
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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. ISB	0
Inside the Commons Committee of Secrecy: George Treby's Shorthand and the Popish Plot	0
Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*	0
The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784^*	0
Parties in Parliament in the 18th Century: The Demolition of Robert Walcott and its Consequences*	0
PART I: THE STORY	0
‘United Britons & Irishmen’: Cato Street, Proclamations, and the Insurrectionary Tradition, 1798–1820*	0
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
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
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‘Populist Constitutionalism’ and the Unionist Party during the 1911 House of Lords’ Crisis	0
Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament¹	0
(Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III	0
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. £65.00	0
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; 9780	0
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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
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Edward I: New Interpretations. Edited by AndyKing and Andrew M.Spencer. York: York Medieval Press. 2020. x, 193pp. £65.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781903153727.	0
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INTRODUCTION	0
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX	0
Chronological Index	0
The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century^*	0
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PART II: THE DIARIES	0
The Letters of Thomas Smith, 27 Jan. 1711–[?19 May 1714]	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
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
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
The Discovery of D'Ewes's Long Parliament Diary	0
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
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NOTE ON EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES	0
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Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I^*	0
‘No distinction exists as to religion, profession, or sex’: Imperial Reform and the Electoral Culture of the East India Company's Court of Proprietors, 1760–84	0
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Eveline Cruickshanks (1926–2021): An Appreciation	0
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Notes on Contributors	0
Letters of Sir James Dunbar, 5 Dec. 1710–17 Mar. 1711	0
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‘A rancour and a passion would be introduced into politics’: Perceptions of the Woman MP in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain^*	0
APPENDIX 1: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0