Would-be historian of Parliament & of English politics in the C17th. Previously director of the History of Parliament.
Joined June 2010
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16 Mar 2020
Among all the treasures in Hansard, this one, an account of the disasters endured by members of the House of Lords attending the Naval Review at Spithead in 1858, is priceless: hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/…
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Apr 16
Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (@Cambridge_Uni) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @Global_IH tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT A photo of a young John Dunn
ALT An image of the first page of the PDF, read via the link
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Apr 16
Het meest opvallende gebouw op het Binnenhof is zonder twijfel de Ridderzaal. Deze oorspronkelijk middeleeuwse zaal vormt al meer dan 7 eeuwen het onmiskenbare herkenningspunt van het complex. Maar de Ridderzaal stond er geruime tijd enigszins vervallen bij en had het geen representatieve functie. 1/4
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Phil Booth and I have written a short obituary for the mighty Professor Dame Averil Cameron of @UniofOxford @KebleOxford @OxfordHistory @OxfordByzantine who died this week #RIP
history.ox.ac.uk/article/pro…
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Apr 9
The Sound looking from Helsingborg in Sweden to Helsingfors (Elsinore) in Denmark. A pinch point of international trade 2.5 miles across. Charging tolls financed the Danish state from 1429, and enabled the dismantling of the old constitutional system in 1660.
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9 Jul 2025
It is almost certainly one of those things nodded through Parliament without much thought but my god it looks terrible and symbolically physically enforces that separation between politicians and people which is very bad in the current climate
8 Jul 2025
While the French are creating luxury buses to serve their @UNESCO World Heritage sites, we are erecting prison bars around ours.
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3 Jul 2025
Ban balloon releases at events to protect wildlife - Sign the Petition! chng.it/c9gW2p4B7x via @UKChange
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12 Jun 2025
New post today from @TheVictCommons, and the first in a new series.
Dr Martin Spychal explores the life and career of Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP:
historyofparliament.com/2025…
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6 Jun 2025
What a treasure. The British Library holds topographer Samuel Buck’s earliest surviving work, a sketchbook of his home county, Yorkshire, which he used on a series of tours between 1719 and 1720. The pen and ink sketches of country houses and
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4 Jun 2025
Why is there no Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics edition of the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris? @OWC_Oxford @PenguinClassics
stalbanshistory.org/archaeol…
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18 Apr 2025
🐟 Les océans sont plus que jamais menacés par la surpêche.
➡️ À Saint-Raphaël, dans le sud-est de la France, les pêcheurs ont créé une réserve marine : dans la zone du #CapRoux, la pêche est interdite. Résultat : la faune et la flore renaissent.
Un reportage signé @PlanBf24 ⤵️
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11 Feb 2025
...tell them and are thus content to go along with the process. This #AssistedDying Bill is different because their front benches are not guiding them and the weaknesses in the process are therefore coming to the fore as MPs grapple with it themselves.
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2 Jan 2025
Excited to announce a packed programme of events for EMECC in Spring 2025 @WarwickHistory: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo…
Including talks by @DrRosamundOates, @SarCaputo, Carlos Alves, @JoplingNathan, @DrLiz_Egan, @Imogen_Knox, @pseaward1 #twitterstorians #earlymodern
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23 Jan 2025
Here are a couple of Little Owl boxes that our Conservation Team installed recently at a local site where the residents have been hearing their distinctive calls 🤩🦉
Little Owls are rapidly disappearing in Devon and so if anyone sees or hears them about, please let us know!
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9 Jan 2025
Early Modern Diplomacy Ambassadors leaving the Hague Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1620-26
1st carriage: Charles d'Espesses, French ambassador
2nd: Sir Dudley Carleton, English ambassador
3rd: Probably Alvise Contarini, Venetian (British Museum)
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6 Jan 2025
On TRIH @dcsandbrook made the point that Neville Chamberlain wasn’t the weedy pushover of popular memory; instead he was personally formidable, steely and often quite arrogant. And you get a sense of it in this (rather hammy) performance from 1934.
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