As the holidays approach, here is a gentle reminder to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Symposium, being held at Christ's College, Cambridge, on 4 April 2026. Submissions are due on Monday, 5 January - Please get in touch with any questions! #cfp #earlymodern #callforpapers

Find out about this event & more - including travel grant opportunities, our essay prize, conference reports & recent publications - below, in our website newsletter ichrpi.info/news/

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Find out about this event & more - including travel grant opportunities, our essay prize, conference reports & recent publications - below, in our website newsletter ichrpi.info/news/

🚨🚨We are pleased to announce a remote conference to be held on 26 March 2026. Papers are welcome on topics related to parliamentary history. Proposals with a 100 word abstract & brief bio should be submitted to Dr. Peter J. Aschenbrenner by 2 March 2026. More details to follow.

Archaeologists unearth 6,000 years of history beneath the Palace of Westminster in London archaeologymag.com/2025/11/hist...

Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2

Our Director of Publications, Dr Coleman Dennehy is speaking to the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society in Dundalk on Thursday at 7pm. See below for further details 👇 clahs.ie/events/justi...

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (@mpilhlt.bsky.social) is also hiring a postdoctoral fellow in the new Centre for Legal History in India www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ006/o...

See below details of an exciting opportunity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (@mpilhlt.bsky.social) for three PhD students in the newly established Centre for Legal History in India www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ045/t... #LegalHistory #LegalTheory #ConstitutionalHistory

A reminder for this hybrid event next Wednesday

🚨Four Courts Press 50% sale on 2 titles until 9am tomorrow! 1. Bríd McGrath's study of the early C17th Irish Commons from our studies series www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2021/t... 2. A legal history of 🇮🇪 with chapters by ICHRPI's Coleman Dennehy & Colum Kenny www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2021/l...

#OTD 1696, a bill was passed that would result in the execution of Sir John Fenwick for treason. Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses: historyofparliament.com/2025/11/25/t...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

#PER accepts reviews of titles relevant to the scope of the ICHRPI, relating but not limited to parliamentary, legal, constitutional & political history. We welcome enquiries about potential reviews. See our instructions for authors here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We would like to welcome our new reviews editor for #PER, Assistant Professor Nina Kršljanin (Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade). Nina's PhD explored medieval Serbian law and and her research explores broader themes in legal and parliamentary history. lawgem.ius.bg.ac.rs/people/nina-...

Now hiring two Research Assistants interested in #history or #economics to support our scholars from Europe! These paid undergraduate roles begin asap and continue through Spring 2026. Apply now to gain hands-on research experience ➡️ ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunitie... @historyecon.bsky.social

Volume 45 issue 3 of #PER is now out in full. It has 15 research articles, 4 book reviews & a miscellany, with details of funding opportunities, the ICHRPI newsletter & information on our 2026 conference in Barcelona. See the @tandfresearch.bsky.social website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c...

Colonial New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and politically charged toasts. 🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament. Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:

Volume 45 issue 3 of #PER is now out in full. It has 15 research articles, 4 book reviews & a miscellany, with details of funding opportunities, the ICHRPI newsletter & information on our 2026 conference in Barcelona. See the @tandfresearch.bsky.social website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c...

Political possibilities in a post-revolutionary world On 26 November, 17.00 CET, join a workshop with Luis De la Peña on South America and the Balkans in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/C4S9K1I Organised by our Political History and Diplomatic/International History working groups

An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers: Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850' www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #Prosopography #PoliticalHistory

#OTD 1712, the infamous, and extremely violent Hamilton-Mohun duel took place between Scottish Tory the Duke of Hamilton and the Cornish Whig Lord Mohun. Check out Dr Robin Eagles' article on the violent history of duels in 18thc England here: historyofparliament.com/2018/06/07/d...

On 16 December, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking at this year's History of Parliament Annual Lecture! His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:

As we approach election year in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, why not delve deeper into the history of Scottish parliamentary elections with this article by Nicola Cowmeadow from volume 33 (2013) of #PER which focuses on the role of noblewomen in the electoral process: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

BBC News - Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament www.bbc.com/news/article...

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Newly published online in #PER this week is Christos Papastylianos' (University of Nicosia) investigation of revisions to the Greek constitution in the early 20th century: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization

As it's bonfire night in the UK, why not indulge in some contextual reading on the English Parliament under James VI & I, 1604-10 by way of our 2019 Emile Lousse Prize winner, Deborah Kilroy (PER, vol. 41 no. 1 (2021), pp. 1-23): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a recent #OpenAccess article in #PER, Adriano Giuliani (Australian National University, Canberra) undertakes a broad investigation of the concept of sortition throughout political history, from ancient Greece, through medieval Europe and onto modern democracies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published today in #PER is Dr Coleman Dennehy's touching tribute to Dr Bríd McGrath (1958-2025). Bríd was a renowned scholar of early modern Ireland and parliaments & was latterly a #ICHRPI member. Bríd will be sorely missed by family, friends & colleagues. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In one of our newest #OpenAccess articles, @allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled: 'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As our conference is in full flow in Sibiu 🇷🇴, why not take a deep dive into the C19th Transylvanian estates & parliament with this article from vol. 42 of PER (2022): Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'

Please spread the word! @pseaward.bsky.social @brfmiranda.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social @ichrpi.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @histparl.bsky.social @parlculture.bsky.social

#ICYMI, earlier in the week we looked at the career of Nancy Astor over on our #TikTok channel. #WomensHistoryMonth Click below to see the video:

We have a new article in #PER online on #representative institutions in late medieval 🇵🇹 Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (University of Coimbra), 'The ‘irregular’ Cortes of Coimbra in 1385 and Lisbon in 1439, in the context of the medieval Portuguese Cortes' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This conference is coming up this Friday & it looks to be a corker! See below for further details. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... #ParliamentaryHistory #PeopleandParliament #Representation

More fresh #GovernmentalHistory published in this #PER article which is a reminder of the global scope of the #ICHRPI. Pham Duc Anh (Vietnam National University) compares government under the Nguyen dynasty to earlier institutions in Vietnam & China tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A closely related #OpenAccess article to the one below has recently been published on #PER online. Laura Doak, another member of the Scottish Privy Council Project team, investigates the Privy Council's registers through the lens of #materiality. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're so pleased to be supporting the upcoming conference, 'Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space', at the University of Warwick. Find out more, including how to register, via our website:

Yet more new #ParliamentaryHistory published this week in #PER online. Silke Hensel (unicologne.bsky.social) discusses the gendering of debates on political representation and representative institutions in 19th century Mexico. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Representation #Politics #Gender

New article in #PER online. Martín O. Castro (University of Buenos Aires) analyses female petitioning and political culture in Argentina between the late-19th century and the beginning of the 20th. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ParliamentaryHistory #Petitioning #HistoricalResearch

Funded PhD opportunity with the University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament on Irish MPs in the 19th century House of Commons. Application deadline 5 March 2025. For further details, see the links here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/n...

🚨 New #OpenAccess article in #PER. Alastair Mann of the University of Stirling (& director of publications for the #ICHRPI) investigates the 1708 demise of the Scottish Privy Council in the context of a rising culture of party in politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a new book review out in #PER online. Our journal editor, John Young (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social), assesses Karin Bowie's (@uofglasgow.bsky.social) most recent monograph: 'Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707' (Cambridge UP, 2020). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is taking place tomorrow (Tues) - there's still time to sign up to join online.

Remember the (Geordie) Alamo. My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Freshly published in #PER online is this article by @a-b-evans.bsky.social (of @walesgovernance.bsky.social). Evans looks into New Labour's territorial policies in the UK & its commitment to referenda leading up to the 2004 North East of England referendum. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....