Lewis Namier is generally seen as the strongest intellectual influence on the History of Parliament. He was editor of the first volumes of the History to be published, in 1964, although they appeared shortly after his death.
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In 1643 the Long Parliament created a number of new taxes to finance the army it had raised to fight Charles I. The pressure of civil war forced them to innovate. The result was a fundamental transformation in the nature of English parliamentary taxation. These were also some of the most important...
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Conservative Whigs gravitated towards the government in response to the violent excesses of the French revolution, and resulted in the junction of the Portland Whigs with Pitt’s ministry in July 1794. From December 1792 Fox was left with a rump of about 55 steady followers in the Commons.
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The duke of Cambridge was the English title bestowed in 1706 on George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover (and future British king, George II). Although the prince did not actually set foot on British soil until his arrival with his father in September 1714, his name was frequently at...
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Examples of twins sitting in Parliament at the same time are extremely rare. The first time it happened, so far as we can establish, was at the 1774 election, when even more unusually, two Grenville twins took the two places at Buckingham.
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Fast sermons were preached to Parliament by prominent clergymen on pre-arranged occasions. They provided opportunities to promote unity, galvanise Members into action and steer them towards particular policies. Usually published by request and with official authority, they also reflected...
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Professor Chris Kyle, from Syracuse University, explains how close people could get to Parliament in the seventeenth century.
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