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This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ...

Published in Parliaments, Estates and Representation (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Recent historiography has demonstrated that the elections of municipal procurators to the ancient Portuguese Cortes did not follow a general electoral law, but rather that they developed within the...

Finland’s decision to seek membership of NATO in 2022 provides an opportunity to examine the parliamentary role in decision making and to reflect on the key features of the 2019–23 parliamentary se...

Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons 1640-1660 Section, continues our Named Parliaments series with the 'Barebones Parliament'...

In introducing the Government of Wales Act 2006, the then Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain expressed optimism that the legislation, the product of an intensely negotiated internal compromise...

Some historical examples of executive instability

This special issue examines the relationship between language and parliamentary representation across the Francophone world through four complementary lenses: (1) a historical perspective on the fu...

Dr Simon Payling of our House of Commons 1461-1504 section explores the motivations of Richard, duke of York's motivations for asserting his claim to the throne in 1460...

As part of the theme ‘Constitutional case law on the use of languages in parliaments sharing the French language’ of the 2025 Spring School in Parliamentary Studies, devoted to The use of languages...

‘A mix between arcane procedure and schoolboy-ish behaviour’? Westminster as told to the History of Parliament’s Oral History Project

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YouTube video by Весник правне историје / Herald of Legal History

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