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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
MPs on the Subject of STEMM: What Can Oral History Tell Us?^*	2
‘The Best‐Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’? Proposals, Planning, Defeat, and Legacy, of Devolution in the 1970s^*	1
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–2021	1
Reporting by Letter: The 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and his Parliamentary Correspondents	1
The Culture of Fasting in Early Stuart Parliaments^*	1
The Presentation of the Speaker of the Commons in Tudor Parliaments: Pageantry, Persuasion and Management^*†	1
What Was Parliamentary Reporting? A Study of Aims and Results in the London Daily Newspapers, 1780–96^*	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
The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century	1
‘High Politics’ and its Intellectual Contexts^*	1
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
The Man Who Enriched – and Robbed – the Tories	0
Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act	0
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
Parties in Parliament in the 18th Century: The Demolition of Robert Walcott and its Consequences*	0
‘But Private Notes for My Own Memory’? Parliamentary Diaries, Parliamentary History and the Politics of Information in Early Stuart England^*	0
Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election^*	0
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The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6^*	0
William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution	0
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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
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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
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Notes on Contributors	0
Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*	0
Introduction	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
Sidney Herbert: Too Short A Life. By R.E.Foster. Gloucester: The Hobnob Press. 2019. xi, 493 pp. Hardback £25.00; paperback £16.95. ISBN 9781906978709; 9781906978693; Charles Pelham Villiers: Arist	0
‘Sir Madam’: Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters	0
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
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
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
Appendix 1: The Division in the Irish House of Commons on the Bank, 14 Oct. 1721	0
Appendix 4: Members of the Irish House of Commons Mentioned in the Text	0
Disraeli: The Romance of Politics. By RobertO'Kell. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press. 2013. x, 595 pp. Hardback $103.00; paperback $48.95. ISBN 9781442644595; 9781442627062.	0
The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis	0
Chronological Index	0
‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81*	0
‘A Place To Speak One's Conscience In’: Disciplines of Debate in the Protectorate Parliaments, 1654–9	0
Introduction	0
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INTRODUCTION	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
House of Lords Committee Accommodation and Its Use: Restoration and Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries^*	0
The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914. By LukeBlaxill. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society. 2020. xviii, 343 pp. £50.00. ISBN 9780861933549.	0
Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters^*	0
Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81^*	0
Chronological Index	0
Re‐assessing the Conservative Anti‐EEC Rebellion of 1971–2^*	0
Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*	0
Enoch Powell, Parliament and Europe	0
Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber. By WilliamSelinger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. viii, 246 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108475747.	0
The Impact of Back Benchers in the Creation of Social Reform: The Indefatigable and Honourable Exertions of Mr Gilbert^*	0
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The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century^*	0
THE DIARIES	0
Frances Harris (1950–2021): A Memoir	0
LIST OF FIGURES AND PLATES	0
‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion^*	0
Acknowledgments	0
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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
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Eveline Cruickshanks (1926–2021): An Appreciation	0
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Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti‐Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621*	0
Invading France, Invading Boroughs: Henry VI's MPs Brought to Life	0
Index	0
NOTE ON BIOGRAPHIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION	0
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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
What is Parliamentary History Now?	0
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A.F. Pollard*	0
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John Brooke and the Namierite Succession*	0
Hobhouse, O'Connor and the Nottingham Election of 1847	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
Writing Scottish Parliamentary History, c.1500–1707	0
Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892–1912	0
Chronological Index	0
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‘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
Parliamentary History: An Oblique Glance^*	0
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Notes on Contributors	0
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
PART IV: PETITIONS, CASES AND PAPERS	0
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APPENDIX 1: THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE SURRENDER OF WOOD'S PATENT	0
Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th‐Century English Parliamentary Elections	0
Index	0
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
The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire. Edited by Brent S.Sirota and Allan I.Macinnes. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 2019. xl, 221 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9781783274499.	0
The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912^*	0
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Peterloo. By RobertPoole. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. xxiii, 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780198783466.	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
Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London	0
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government	0
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‘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
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
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
Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528–48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority*	0
Appendix 2: Brodrick Family Members and Connections Mentioned in the Text	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
APPENDIX 4: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament¹	0
‘That Gleaming Sword of Satire’¹: Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid‐Victorian City	0
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‘Old and unfit for other service?’ Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–1760	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
Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage^*	0
Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*	0
Edward I: New Interpretations. Edited by AndyKing and Andrew M.Spencer. York: York Medieval Press. 2020. x, 193pp. £65.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781903153727.	0
Historians on John Gower. Edited by Stephen H.Rigby with SiânEchard. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer. 2019. xxiv, 555 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781843845379.	0
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Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland^*	0
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BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX	0
APPENDIX 2: BRODRICK FAMILY MEMBERS AND CONNECTIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT	0
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Standing Orders and Precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the 17th and 18th Centuries	0
Afterword	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 Tudor Sheriff. A Study in Early Modern Administration. By JonathanMcGovern. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xvii, 297 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9780192848246.	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
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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
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
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
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier. By D.W.Hayton^*. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2019. xvi, 454 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780719086038.	0
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Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party*	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
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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
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
Appendix 3: Members of the Irish House of Lords Mentioned in the Text	0
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The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry. By SophieThérèse Ambler. London: Picador. 2019. 368 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781509837571.	0
APPENDIX B: NEWCASTLE'S MOVEMENTS	0
‘Populist Constitutionalism’ and the Unionist Party during the 1911 House of Lords’ Crisis	0
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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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The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State. By James M.Vaughn. New Haven and London: Yale University Pr	0
Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel	0
Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England. By W.Mark Ormrod. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xii, 148 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9783030452193.	0
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The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017^*	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
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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
King Pym and his ‘Happy, Scrappy Jester’	0
Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising^*	0
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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
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
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Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609^*	0
PART III: NEWSPAPER REPORTS	0
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The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784^*	0
Law and Revolution in Seventeenth‐Century Ireland. Edited by ColemanDennehy. Dublin: Irish Legal History Society/Four Courts Press. 2020. xvi, 366 pp. €55.00. ISBN 9781846828133; The Irish Parliame	0
Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–1890	0
A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604–29	0
Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810^*	0
Inside the Commons Committee of Secrecy: George Treby's Shorthand and the Popish Plot	0
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Did 1979 Make Much Difference? An Alternative View of Select Committee Reform in the 1970s and 1980s^*	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
Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered*	0
An Irish Party and the British Parliament: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Parnell and His Party	0
‘United Britons & Irishmen’: Cato Street, Proclamations, and the Insurrectionary Tradition, 1798–1820*	0
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‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England	0
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CORRESPONDENCE 1722–1728	0
‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain	0
Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics	0
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(Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III	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
The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War	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
A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 1705	0
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The Representative of the State: Why the English Parliament Was Distinctive in the Early 17th Century	0
The Fifteenth Century XVI: Examining Identity. Edited by LindaClark. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2018. xii, 187 pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781783273614.	0
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APPENDIX A: NEWCASTLE'S PUBLISHED LETTERS TO THE PRESS	0
The Rise of New Boroughs and the Decline of Electoral Localism: The Evolving Composition of the House of Commons, 1386–1558^*	0
Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I^*	0
Parliament and the Press: Forging the United Nations in Wartime Britain, 1939–45	0
PART II: THE DIARIES	0
NOTE ON EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES	0
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	0
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Leaps and Light Shows: Visual Politics in the Edwardian Mass Press, 1900–10	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
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
English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker. Edited by DavidIbbetson, NeilJones and NigelRamsay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xxiii, 397 pp. £95.00. ISBN	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
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
Note on Editorial Principles	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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The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787): Gambling and the Law in Later Georgian Britain	0
Correspondence 1714–1722	0
PART I: THE STORY	0
Constitutionalists, Despots, Whigs, and Revisionists: Tudor Parliamentary History in the 20th Century	0
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics. By RachelReeves. London: I.B. Tauris. 2019. xviii, 311 pp. £18.99. ISBN 9781788312202.	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
Elections in 18th‐Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation	0
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