Parliamentary History

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Chronological Index2
Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians1
APPENDIX 4: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT1
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Enlightened Oxford. The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth‐Century Britain and Beyond. By NigelAston. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xxiii, 819pp. Hardback. £120.00. 1
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, 301
The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century*1
The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017*1
Champion of English Freedom: The Life of John Wilkes, MP and Lord Mayor of London. By RobinEagles. Stroud: Amberley Publishing. 2024. 320 pp. Hardback. £22.99. ISBN 9781398111707.1
The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain*1
‘The Earl Marischal's Maggot’: The Scottish Parliament and Foreign Policy in a Composite Monarchy*1
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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 97817832754410
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government0
Norman Gash: Political Historian0
The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784*0
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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 S0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
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Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered*0
NOTE ON BIOGRAPHIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION0
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‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–19140
Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*0
‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain0
APPENDIX 1: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
APPENDIX 2: BRODRICK FAMILY MEMBERS AND CONNECTIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
Introduction: Political Organising, Practical Politics and Histories of Politics in the Long 19th Century*0
Letters of Mungo Graham, 23 Nov. 1710–22 Feb. 17110
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–20210
Voluntarism and Political Conflict in Barbados, 1814–33*0
The House of Commons notebook of Pryse Campbell MP, March–April 17560
Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380*0
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2024. x, 456 pp. Hardback. £25.00. ISBN 9780300278941.0
Edmund Sexten Pery: The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteenth‐century Ireland. Edited by David A.Fleming. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. 310 pp. hardback £60.00. ISBN 9781801510875.0
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Edinburgh's Local Liberal Party and the Political Crises of 1885–6*0
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Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*0
PART I: THE STORY0
Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act0
Wentworth's ‘eye of the Court’: Sir George Radcliffe's management of the Irish parliaments of Charles I's reign.*0
‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England*0
Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics0
The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912*0
The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48. By BridMcGrath. Dublin: Four Courts Press with the Irish Legal History Society. 2023. xvi, 553 pp. Hardback. €65.00. ISBN 9781846828140.0
Writing Settler Constitutions, Debating Imperial Responsibility, and Managing the Conscience of Parliamentary Empire, c.1860–1910*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 970
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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
‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform, Parliamentary Committees, and the Visitation of Winchester College, 1649–50*0
Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914*0
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Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament0
The Men of 1924: Britain's First Labour Government. By PeterClark. London: Haus Publishing. 2023. 296pp. Hardback. £20.00. ISBN 9781913368812, eISBN 9781913368811.The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of0
Settler Colonialism and Parliamentary Democracy – Histories and Legacies*0
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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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; 97800
Proportional Representation and the Birth of the Australian Nation0
The Commons diary of Oley Douglas, 10 Mar.–29 June 17140
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On Laudianism: Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I. By PeterLake. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xx, 610
The Conservative Hold over Scottish Civil Society: Evidence from the 1854 Edinburgh Pollbook*0
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English MPs: Legislators and Servants of their Constituents, 1750–1800. By MichaelMcCahill. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xi, 271 pp. hardback. £85.00. ISBN. 9781350332270.0
The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain. By NicholasPopper. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2024. xi, 343pp. Paperback. £20
‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 18060
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Edmund Burke, Parliamentary Reform, and ‘Nabob’ Influence: a Novel Argument0
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A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 17050
Truss At 10. How Not to Be Prime Minister. By AnthonySeldon with JonathanMeakin. London: Atlantic Books. 2024. 384 pp. Hardback. £22.00. ISBN 9781805462132.0
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
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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
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‘Our Guardian Angel in the House of Commons’: Sir Robert Newman MP and Legislation for Women, 1918–19310
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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
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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 Pre0
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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
The Glorious Revolution, Colonial Legislatures and Franco‐Jacobite Forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1688–1727*0
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NOTE AND DOCUMENT0
Sir John Sainty (1934–2025)0
‘A rancour and a passion would be introduced into politics’: Perceptions of the Woman MP in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain*0
PART III: NEWSPAPER REPORTS0
‘Imperial Westminster’: Colonial Statesmen and British Parliamentary Politics, 1880s–1920s*0
The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century0
Attlee. A Life in Politics. By NickThomas‐Symonds. 2nd edn. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xxiv, 328pp. Paperback. £14.99. ISBN 9780755636136.0
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A Métis Parliament: Louis Riel and Constitutional Debates in Red River*0
English Episcopal Acta 46: Rochester 1235–1318. Edited by PhilippaHoskin. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2022. 304 pp. hardback. £65.00. ISBN 9780197267363.0
The Best of Enemies. Diaries 1980–1997. By NormanFowler. London: Biteback Publishing. 2023. xv, 568 pp. Hardback. £25.00. ISBN 97817859081560
Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–18900
The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist. Volume 1: 1865–1887. Edited by AndrewHobbs. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 2022. xlix, 673 pp. paperback. £25.95. ISBN 9781800642362.0
‘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 T0
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Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892–19120
Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th‐Century English Parliamentary Elections0
Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament10
Political Palimpsests: Landscape as an Organising Agent in 19th‐Century Radicalism*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
Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810*0
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APPENDIX 2: MEMBERS OF THE LORDS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*0
Re‐assessing the Conservative Anti‐EEC Rebellion of 1971–2*0
Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. By MartinSpychal. London: University of London Press/Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives. 2024. xviii, 348 pp. Hardback0
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
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS0
Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800–340
The Letters of Thomas Smith, 27 Jan. 1711–[?19 May 1714]0
CORRESPONDENCE 1722–17280
The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis0
‘No distinction exists as to religion, profession, or sex’: Imperial Reform and the Electoral Culture of the East India Company's Court of Proprietors, 1760–840
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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
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The Non‐Racial Franchise, Constitutionalism, and the Mother of Parliaments in South Africa, 1880–1922*0
Transnational Parliamentary Learning: How the British Parliament Observed Peril, Promise, and Practice in Parliamentary Broadcasting Abroad0
Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*0
Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America. From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Edited by RichardHuzzey, MaartjeJanse, HenryMiller, JorisOddens, and BrodieWaddell. Oxford: Oxford 0
Letters of Sir James Dunbar, 5 Dec. 1710–17 Mar. 17110
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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, 250
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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*0
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2021. xxi, 400 pp. £25.00. Hardback. ISBN 9780300257458.0
From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century*0
The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6*0
Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81*0
Chesterfield, Scarbrough, and the Excise Bill: a new Manuscript Source*0
INTRODUCTION0
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
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. Ha0
‘Old and unfit for other service?’ Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–17600
Respectability and the Silences of Settler Democracy: John Barr Becomes a Parliamentary Man in Progressive New Zealand*0
CLYVE JONES (1944–2024)0
An Early Draft of John Hooker's The Order and usage how to keep a parliament in England in these days (c. 1571)*0
APPENDIX 1: THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE SURRENDER OF WOOD'S PATENT0
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The Discovery of D'Ewes's Long Parliament Diary0
Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation*0
Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election*0
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How to Organise in the 1820s: Forum Selection and the Anti‐Corn Law Campaign in London and Lancashire*0
Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800. Edited by JoanCoutu, JonStobart, and Peter N.Lindfield. Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2023. 344pp. Hardb0
Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti‐Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621*0
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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
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
Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III*0
PART II: THE DIARIES0
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Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol's Elections in 1812*0
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War. Journals and Papers of J.A. Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911–1915. Edited by CameronHazlehurst and ChristineWoodland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xxiii, 0
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. £65.000
‘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
Eveline Cruickshanks (1926–2021): An Appreciation0
Party Conflict in an Irish Parliamentary Borough in the Early 18th Century: The Origins of the Kilkenny Corporation Act of 17170
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
A Motherwell Miracle and a Sponsorship Saga: the Motherwell By‐election, 1945*0
Royalism, Religion and Revolution. Wales, 1640–1688. By Sarah WardClavier. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xii, 266 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9781783276400.0
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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. xi0
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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
Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage*0
Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*0
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Edward I: New Interpretations. Edited by AndyKing and Andrew M.Spencer. York: York Medieval Press. 2020. x, 193pp. £65.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781903153727.0
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
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547 By LauraFlannigan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xv, 304 pp. Hardback. £85.00. ISBN 9781009371360.Hearings of the Court0
The Concept of the Neutrality of the Parliamentary Speakership and Presidency. The United Kingdom versus Continental Europe*0
Urban Government and the Early Stuart State: Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England. By Catherine F.Patterson. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. xii, 312 pp. Hardback0
English Feminists, Imperialism and the Politics of Organisation in the Irish Suffrage Movement, 1900–14*0
St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster. Edited by TimAyers, J.P.D.Cooper, Elizabeth HallamSmith, and CarolineShenton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2024. xxiv, 368pp. Hardback. £115.00. ISBN 90
Living Politics: The Professional Agents and Party Organisation, 1880–1914*0
NOTE ON EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES0
‘That Gleaming Sword of Satire’1: Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid‐Victorian City0
Elections in 18th‐Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation0
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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
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The Great Pillar: The Political Career of Lord Thurlow 1731–1806. By BenGilding. Oxford: New College Library & Archives. 2023. New College Library & Archives Publications no. 5. xiii, 338pp. P0
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‘Playing at Parliament’: The Rise and Fall of Popular Parliamentary Debate in Britain, c.1865–85*0
The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. Volume 1: October 1626 to January 1649. Edited by AndrewBarclay, TimWales, JohnMorrill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. lxiv, 709 pp. Hard0
The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant 1660–1696. By JamesWalters. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. 232 pp. hardback. £75.00. ISBN 97810783276042.0
Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609*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. ISB0
Law and the Idea of Liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the Present. Edited by PeterCrooks and ThomasMohr. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. 244 pp. hardback. £50.00. ISBN 9781846827402.0
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Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500–1850: Essays in Honour of Peter Lake. Edited by DavidComo and MichaelQuestier. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 53). Woodb0
A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604–290
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PART IV: PETITIONS, CASES AND PAPERS0
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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
The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653. By MarkkuPeltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. ix, 263 pp. hardback. £75.00. ISBN. 9781009212045.0
The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War0
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