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The History of Parliament

Blogging on parliament, politics and people, from the History of Parliament.

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Oct 2023 9
Nov 2023 11
Dec 2023 7
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Most recent posts

Two Gardening Giants- Joseph Chamberlain and Michael Heseltine
In the second of two blogs for National Gardening Week, here guest blogger Dr Jonathan Denby takes a closer look at two MPs with a passion for gardening, who served in the Cabinet one hundred …
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Great Parliamentary Gardeners- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Compared
The beginning of May marks the Royal Horticultural Society’s National Gardening Week, but many of the Parliamentarians in our volumes didn’t need extra encouragement to tend to their gardens. In this, the first of two …
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A prisoner in the Lords: the curious case of William Grey, 13th Lord Grey of Wilton
The first Elizabethan Parliament (1559) famously witnessed the restoration of the royal supremacy and paved the way for the reintroduction of Protestantism. It also saw the House of Lords briefly become the main focus of …
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