The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture! On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'. Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Harriet Grote in 1792. As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵

We're heading to Parliament tomorrow evening for a special event discussing our #OralHistory project! Our panel of experts will be discussing how we interview MPs and exploring some of the new stories in our interview archive. Tickets are still available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-from-...

Tickets are still available for our event next week! Join us to discuss how and why we interview MPs for our Oral History project, as well as some of the things we have learnt from our interview archive, in this special live recording of our podcast Tales from the Green Benches!

Do you think you have what it takes to be an MP? Emma and Alex discuss just this on our podcast Tales from the Green Benches, after reflecting on clips from our vast archive of oral history interviews with former MPs. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

History of Parliament is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a LIVE recording of our podcast 'Tales from the Green Benches: An Oral History of Parliament'! Tickets and further details in the link below:

For the past few months our Head of Contemporary History @emmapeplow.bsky.social has been on @mattchorley.bsky.social’s Radio 5live show every Thursday discussing the figures commemorated in Parliament Square. Here she shares some of what she has learned: historyofparliament.com/2025/04/24/s...

1/ #ICYMI last week our own Dr Alex Beeton was a guest on the BBC's Today in Parliament. He discussed what the House of Lords was like in the 17th century, its recording in the Lords Journals, and the heated atmosphere the journals fail to report: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My second article for History of Parliament is live! Please go check it out:)

New article by me on Cynog Dafis, elected to Parliament nearly 20 years before Caroline Lucas on an unofficial Plaid Cymru-Green joint ticket, making him a plausible candidate for the UK’s first Green MP. May be of interest to any historians of the Green Party or environmentalism in late 20th c UK

The first episode is out today! Go give it a listen:)

We're so excited to announce #HistParl's new podcast, Tales from the Green Benches: an Oral History of Parliament! Episodes drop every Monday, starting next week- you can listen to the trailer and subscribe early here or where ever you get your podcasts! ow.ly/yCUV50TUmiB

John London, Britain's first Black voter? NEW to the #HistParl site, Dr Gillian Williamson's groundbreaking research has discovered the earliest known record of a Black person voting in Britain, during the 1749 Westminster by-election: historyofparliament.com/2024/10/21/j...

1/ This #ConstituencyTuesday we are looking at the London borough of Southwark. As Dr Hannes Kleineke explains, this troublesome constituency was quite the melting pot and proved to be a thorn in the side of medieval civic authorities! 👇 ow.ly/zcCU50EBFUv

Born #OTD 1917, Denis Healey. Chancellor of the Exchequer during the economic crises of the late 1970s, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the turbulent early 1980s. Find out about Healey's life and career via our #OralHistory interview: www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-...

Very happy to have been able to write about such an important topic for the History of Parliament - go check out the piece!