https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Parliamentary History. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 25 (2006) - vol. 26 (2007) Latest Articles: Parliamentary History TWO Project MUSE® Parliamentary History 1750-0206 0264-2824 Latest articles in Parliamentary History. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223263 <p></p> Elsewhere in this issue, David Cannadine describes Josiah Wedgwood&#39;s role in the creation of the History of Parliament during the late 1920s and early 1930s.1 He also describes Wedgwood&#39;s general approach to parliament or, more particularly, to the house of commons, and its history and gives some of the background to the decision in 1935-6 to extend the History&#39;s coverage to 1918 from the original cut-off date of 1832. Wedgwood&#39;s survey of members who had served up to 1918 was intended to form the basis of his planned history of the house of commons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the course of 1936-7, he compiled nearly 140 biographies, using around one-third of the 380 completed ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Josiah Wedgwood and his Contemporaries: The History of Parliament Survey, 1936–40 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Josiah Wedgwood and his Contemporaries: The History of Parliament Survey, 1936–40 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 11835 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223264 <p></p> The History of Parliament is an iconic British undertaking which, in its scale, scope and significance, may fittingly be grouped with such cognate co-operative ventures as the Dictionary of National Biography, the Survey of London, the Victoria County Histories, and the Buildings of England series.1 All of these great enterprises are multi-volume productions, inaugurated by dedicated and (sometimes, but not always) charismatic founders, which have subsequently evolved into major schemes of collective and collaborative inquiry, and all of them are (rightly and of necessity) still very much works in progress. Long may they continue to be so. From the outset, these massive projects have been informed by a strong sense ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall The History of Parliament: Past, Present - and Future? 2007-11-01 text/html en-US The History of Parliament: Past, Present - and Future? 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 146790 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223265 <p></p> In the introduction to this volume of essays, Ralph Houlbrooke refers to James VI and I as &#39;A scholar&#39;s king par excellence&#39;: James stands out as a uniquely eloquent communicator of ideas about kingship, articulated through a variety of media, but at the same time he &#39;remains in many respects an engimatic figure&#39; who, through his &#39;inconsistencies and complexities&#39;, continues to pose interpretative problems. This collection strikes a judicious balance, taking James seriously as a skilful and, in some respects, successful politician, while also acknowledging the divisiveness of his policies, especially, in religious matters, and the troublesome legacy bequeathed to his successor. This even-handedness is finely ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall James VI and I. Ideas, Authority, and Government (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US James VI and I. Ideas, Authority, and Government (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 14570 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223266 <p></p> This co-edited book - intended as the first in an annual series - involving contributions from 26 people, offers a review a developments in British politics during 2005 under the headings: the Conservative party, the constitution, elections and public opinion, parties and party systems, pressure politics, government and administration, the citizen and administration, the house of commons, the house of lords, law and politics, public policy, devolution, local government, foreign policy, Britian and Europe, politics and the media, and a conclusion entitled &#39;Turning Point or Staging Post?&#39;. A statistical appendix contains electoral and other data. The difficulty with such a book is attempting to divine trends and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005 (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005 (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 8039 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223267 <p></p> Overshadowed by the greater national upset of the winter of 1688 was an apparently minor event that goes some way towards explaining the rapidity with which James II was displaced from his throne. Towards the end of November, Captain Henry Bertie marched into Gloucester at the head a troop of renegade Oxfordshire militia, and to the rescue of the notorious &#39;hot whig&#39; John, 3rd Lord Lovelace, who had been imprisoned in the city gaol following his capture at Cirencester.1 Lovelace and the Berties had long been rivals for political authority in Oxfordshire, and the coming together at this juncture of the largely royalist Berties with men of Lovelace&#39;s stamp signifies the extent to which James II had alienated those on ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Unnatural Allies? The Oxfordshire Élite from the Exclusion Crisis to the Overthrow of James II 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Unnatural Allies? The Oxfordshire Élite from the Exclusion Crisis to the Overthrow of James II 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 132559 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223268 <p></p> In the history of the English parliament, the fifteenth century marked a period of transition. It saw profound change not only in the composition of the parliamentary Commons, but also in the introduction of statute law regulating parliamentary elections, the evolution of the privileges of free speech and freedom from arrest, and in the practices governing the remuneration of the knights of the shire and parliamentary burgesses.1 If in their insistence on the return of local men, elected by local men meeting a property qualification, the electoral statutes placed emphasis on the preservation of a supposed status quo (however mythical this might be by the time it came to be codified), the changing and increasingly ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall The Payment of Members of Parliament in the Fifteenth Century 2007-11-01 text/html en-US The Payment of Members of Parliament in the Fifteenth Century 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 172263 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223269 <p></p> Lewis Harcourt, first Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922) was the eldest son of William Harcourt, home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer. The younger Harcourt had his own political career. He was M.P. for the Rossendale division of Lancashire (1904-16), first commissioner of works in Campbell-Bannerman&#39;s cabinet (1905), PC (1905) and secretary of state for the colonies (1910). He was raised to the peerage in 1917. Harcourt&#39;s mother, Marie Th&#xE9;r&#xE9;se Lister, died at his birth, and he was educated privately and at Eton, which was another of his deep emotional attachments. Illness prevented his going up to Cambridge and he spent some time abroad. Harcourt was especially attached to his father and subordinated his ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Loulou. Selected Extracts from the Journal of Lewis Harcourt (1880–1895) (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Loulou. Selected Extracts from the Journal of Lewis Harcourt (1880–1895) (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 9587 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223270 <p></p> With this sequel to the first volume, published in 1998, which covered Burkes&#39;s life up to the great defeat of his political allies in 1784, F. P. Lock brings to a conclusion the first full-scale biography of Burke since that of Carl B. Cone, called Burke and the Nature of Politics (University of Kentucky Press, 1957-64). Burke scholarship has changed greatly over the 40 years since Cone&#39;s work appeared. The publication of Burke&#39;s correspondence in ten volumes was completed in 1970. Eight out of nine projected volumes of a new edition of his Writings and Speeches have been issued. The range of interpretative studies of Burke has widened considerably beyond the established canon of what was long taken to have been ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Edmund Burke, Volume II: 1784–1797 (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Edmund Burke, Volume II: 1784–1797 (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 9082 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223271 <p></p> The appearance of the fifth volume of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History&#39;s Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament under the editorship of Maija Jansson is a welcome addition to the available resources for the study of seventeenth-century political, constitutional, military, and ecclesiastical history.The volume covers the events of the late spring and early summer of 1641. These difficult months following the execution of the earl of Strafford on 12 May reveal an atmosphere of continued tension and growing mutual mistrust. Much of the volume is taken up with the Long Parliament&#39;s response to the revelation of the army plot in which a cabal of senior army officers, in league with courtiers ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Proceeding in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. The House of Commons. volume 5:7 June–17 July 1641 (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Proceeding in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. The House of Commons. volume 5:7 June–17 July 1641 (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 8348 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223272 <p></p> Recent years have witnessed a profound transformation in historians&#39; approach to the political culture of the first half of the seventeenth century. Driven, in part, by a concern to develop a response to revisionist accounts of the period, they have breathed new life into studies of the popular and pamphlet literature of the period, and revived interest in the early modern news revolution.1 Driven also by a desire to break down the distinctions between social and political history, and between &#39;&#xE9;lite&#39; and &#39;popular&#39; politics, historians have sought to re-examine the nature of political participation, and to reconsider public politics.2 Attempts have been made, as a result, to suggest that the period witnessed the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Royalist News, Parliamentary Debates and Political Accountability, 1640–60 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Royalist News, Parliamentary Debates and Political Accountability, 1640–60 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 148371 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223273 <p></p> Sir Francis Acland (1874-1939) first entered parliament as one of the 400 Liberal M.P.s returned in the 1906 landslide. His last contest in 1935 left him as one of just 21 opposition Liberal M.P.s. The Liberal party&#39;s changing electoral fortunes provide the backdrop to this edition of the correspondence of Acland and his wife Eleanor (1879-1933). Acland came from a prominent political family: his December 1910 election address, reproduced in this collection, declared that &#39;in each of the last three centuries members of my family have had the honour of representing Cornish seats&#39; (p. 53). However, as Tregidga notes in his preface, Francis and Eleanor represent a neglected generation in terms of historical study. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Killerton, Camborne and Westminster. The Political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Killerton, Camborne and Westminster. The Political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 9780 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223274 <p></p> The Conservative party used to be absent at the rich historiographical feasts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British popular politics. This was ironic given that the tories were in office, either on their own or as part of a coalition, for nearly 58 years of the nineteenth century, and they were also the dominant electoral force of the twentieth century. To historians of popular politics the electoral success of the Conservative Party was unremarkable, largely attributable to the enduring power of the propertied classes. What &#39;popular&#39;, or more specifically, working-class, Conservatism existed was usually dismissed as a form of political deviancy.1 To many of the left-leaning historians of popular politics ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Popular Conservatism In Britain, 1832-1914 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Popular Conservatism In Britain, 1832-1914 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 192542 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223275 <p></p> Colourful, charismatic and perennially elusive, &#39;that consummate libertine&#39;, John Wilkes continues to catch the imagination to this day, more than any other figure on the eighteenth-century political stage with the possible exception of his alter ego, the Elder Pitt. Thus over the years his political career has been extensively explored by such noted scholars as inter alia G. Rud&#xE9;, J. Brewer and P. D. G. Thomas, with primary attention devoted to the period 1763-74, when Wilkes was most active in the public arena. Correspondingly less attention has focused on his tumultuous private life, even in standard biographies,1 except as a transient backdrop to the momentous legal/constitutional issues he brought to national ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall John Wilkes. The Lives of a Libertine (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US John Wilkes. The Lives of a Libertine (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 10687 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223276 <p></p> History of ParliamentIn 1614 the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Sir Thomas Parry, was expelled from parliament after it was learned that he had used his authority unlawfully to determine the outcome of the Stockbridge election. In Parry&#39;s defence, the attorney general Sir Francis Bacon asserted, with some deliberate exaggeration, that it was &#39;the prescription of the chancellor to have the nomination of one of the burgesses in every of the duchy towns&#39;.1 By suggesting that attempts by the crown&#39;s servants to pack the house of commons were a long-established and normal practice, Bacon intended to quash suspicions of a sinister &#39;undertaking&#39; to manage this particular parliament in the interests of the king. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall The Electoral Patronage of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1604-28 2007-11-01 text/html en-US The Electoral Patronage of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1604-28 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 115692 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223277 <p></p> History of ParliamentIt was once a truism that the famous Buckinghamshire election dispute of 1604 was a crucial milestone in the development of the English House of Commons. Following the intervention of James I, the Commons effectively won from chancery the right to judge the validity of parliamentary election returns, so eliminating the possibility that the crown, through the lord chancellor, would pack the chamber with its own nominees. However, in recent years several scholars have questioned the central importance of the case. Derek Hirst, while conceding that a battle for supremacy took place, has stressed the compromise nature of the final settlement, argues that chancery continued to pose a threat to the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall Commons v. Chancery: The 1604 Buckinghamshire Election Dispute Revisited 2007-11-01 text/html en-US Commons v. Chancery: The 1604 Buckinghamshire Election Dispute Revisited 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 51107 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278 <p></p> The author of this study concerning the failed attempt to secure a Spanish bride for the future Charles I brings to it an unusual familiarity with continental sources and a fresh perspective on early seventeenth-century English history &#x2013; much of his previous work having been concerned with the Tudor period. Redworth is in addition a distinguished Hispanist. All of which helps to explain his willingness to challenge current historiographical orthodoxies. Thus he writes of &#39;the Stuarts&#39; commitment to an alliance with the Habsburgs of Madrid as evidence of a desire &#x2013; and presumably therefore of a need &#x2013; to find a counterpoise to the belligerent protestantism of many of their subjects, and that this serves as &#39;a timely ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223278">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/336/image/coversmall The Prince and the Infanta. The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match (review) 2007-11-01 text/html en-US The Prince and the Infanta. The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match (review) 2007-11-01 2007 TWO Project MUSE® 7170 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2007-11-01