Parliamentary History

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(The median citation count of Parliamentary History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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
Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians1
APPENDIX 4: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT1
The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century*1
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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
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A Motherwell Miracle and a Sponsorship Saga: the Motherwell By‐election, 1945*0
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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
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The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784*0
Eveline Cruickshanks (1926–2021): An Appreciation0
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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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‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain0
Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage*0
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‘A rancour and a passion would be introduced into politics’: Perceptions of the Woman MP in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain*0
Letters of Mungo Graham, 23 Nov. 1710–22 Feb. 17110
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
‘Imperial Westminster’: Colonial Statesmen and British Parliamentary Politics, 1880s–1920s*0
The House of Commons notebook of Pryse Campbell MP, March–April 17560
The Concept of the Neutrality of the Parliamentary Speakership and Presidency. The United Kingdom versus Continental Europe*0
Party Conflict in an Irish Parliamentary Borough in the Early 18th Century: The Origins of the Kilkenny Corporation Act of 17170
Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892–19120
Wentworth's ‘eye of the Court’: Sir George Radcliffe's management of the Irish parliaments of Charles I's reign.*0
Living Politics: The Professional Agents and Party Organisation, 1880–1914*0
The Best of Enemies. Diaries 1980–1997. By NormanFowler. London: Biteback Publishing. 2023. xv, 568 pp. Hardback. £25.00. ISBN 97817859081560
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‘That Gleaming Sword of Satire’1: Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid‐Victorian City0
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Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–18900
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
Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th‐Century English Parliamentary Elections0
The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912*0
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
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
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
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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
APPENDIX 2: MEMBERS OF THE LORDS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609*0
Re‐assessing the Conservative Anti‐EEC Rebellion of 1971–2*0
‘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 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
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CORRESPONDENCE 1722–17280
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
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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
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Transnational Parliamentary Learning: How the British Parliament Observed Peril, Promise, and Practice in Parliamentary Broadcasting Abroad0
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government0
Letters of Sir James Dunbar, 5 Dec. 1710–17 Mar. 17110
‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 18060
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Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered*0
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
A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 17050
‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–19140
Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380*0
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
APPENDIX 2: BRODRICK FAMILY MEMBERS AND CONNECTIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841–6*0
‘Our Guardian Angel in the House of Commons’: Sir Robert Newman MP and Legislation for Women, 1918–19310
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–20210
Chesterfield, Scarbrough, and the Excise Bill: a new Manuscript Source*0
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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Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2024. x, 456 pp. Hardback. £25.00. ISBN 9780300278941.0
‘Old and unfit for other service?’ Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–17600
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
Political Palimpsests: Landscape as an Organising Agent in 19th‐Century Radicalism*0
CLYVE JONES (1944–2024)0
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Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*0
Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti‐Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621*0
Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation*0
The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century0
‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England*0
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A Métis Parliament: Louis Riel and Constitutional Debates in Red River*0
The Conservative Hold over Scottish Civil Society: Evidence from the 1854 Edinburgh Pollbook*0
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‘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
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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
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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
Royalism, Religion and Revolution. Wales, 1640–1688. By Sarah WardClavier. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021. xii, 266 pp. Hardback £75.00. ISBN 9781783276400.0
Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament10
Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament0
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
Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810*0
Settler Colonialism and Parliamentary Democracy – Histories and Legacies*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
Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*0
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS0
Proportional Representation and the Birth of the Australian Nation0
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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
Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800–340
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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
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
Elections in 18th‐Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation0
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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English Feminists, Imperialism and the Politics of Organisation in the Irish Suffrage Movement, 1900–14*0
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Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*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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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
The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*0
The Glorious Revolution, Colonial Legislatures and Franco‐Jacobite Forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1688–1727*0
The Making of Oliver Cromwell. By RonaldHutton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2021. xxi, 400 pp. £25.00. Hardback. ISBN 9780300257458.0
Sir John Sainty (1934–2025)0
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
PART III: NEWSPAPER REPORTS0
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
INTRODUCTION0
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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The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War0
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
PART IV: PETITIONS, CASES AND PAPERS0
An Early Draft of John Hooker's The Order and usage how to keep a parliament in England in these days (c. 1571)*0
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 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
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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
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
How to Organise in the 1820s: Forum Selection and the Anti‐Corn Law Campaign in London and Lancashire*0
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Norman Gash: Political Historian0
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Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*0
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Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III*0
‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*0
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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
Voluntarism and Political Conflict in Barbados, 1814–33*0
APPENDIX 1: MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1710–14 MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
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The Letters of Thomas Smith, 27 Jan. 1711–[?19 May 1714]0
Introduction: Political Organising, Practical Politics and Histories of Politics in the Long 19th Century*0
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT0
The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis0
PART I: THE STORY0
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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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
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
The Non‐Racial Franchise, Constitutionalism, and the Mother of Parliaments in South Africa, 1880–1922*0
Edinburgh's Local Liberal Party and the Political Crises of 1885–6*0
Writing Settler Constitutions, Debating Imperial Responsibility, and Managing the Conscience of Parliamentary Empire, c.1860–1910*0
Edward I: New Interpretations. Edited by AndyKing and Andrew M.Spencer. York: York Medieval Press. 2020. x, 193pp. £65.00. Hardback. ISBN 9781903153727.0
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
Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act0
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Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics0
‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform, Parliamentary Committees, and the Visitation of Winchester College, 1649–50*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
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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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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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From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century*0
Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914*0
Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti‐Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81*0
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
‘Playing at Parliament’: The Rise and Fall of Popular Parliamentary Debate in Britain, c.1865–85*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
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Respectability and the Silences of Settler Democracy: John Barr Becomes a Parliamentary Man in Progressive New Zealand*0
The Commons diary of Oley Douglas, 10 Mar.–29 June 17140
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
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
Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By‐Election*0
English MPs: Legislators and Servants of their Constituents, 1750–1800. By MichaelMcCahill. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xi, 271 pp. hardback. £85.00. ISBN. 9781350332270.0
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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
Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol's Elections in 1812*0
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
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
Edmund Burke, Parliamentary Reform, and ‘Nabob’ Influence: a Novel Argument0
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
PART II: THE DIARIES0
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A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604–290
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