S.J. Payling, A Fluid Elite? Social Mobility and County Representation in the Reign of Henry VI, p. 207
David Pennington, Divisions, Majority Rule and Political Culture in the Tudor and Early Stuart House of Commons, p. 223
Robert O'Kell, Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1, p. 240
Stuart Ball, The Rebel MPs in the 'Norway Debate' Division of 8 May 1940, p. 266
Elizabeth Hallam Smith, The Power of Place and Tradition: Parliament at Westminster, 1939-51, p. 302
Gunilla Carlander Reuterfelt, Finland and the United Kingdom Parliamentary Contacts during the Cold War, p. 325

Reviews, p. 349

THE POLITICS OF ORGANISING IN THE LONG 19th Century
(Edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones)

Notes on Contributors, p. 1
Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Introduction: Political Organising, Practical Politics and Histories of Politics in the Long 19th Century, p. 3
Henry Miller, Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation, p. 16
Isaiah Silvers, Voluntarism and Political Conflict in Barbados, 1814-33, p. 33
Mary O'Connor, How to Organise in the 1820s: Forum Selection and the Anti-Corn Law Campaign in London and Lancashire, p. 54
Dave Steele, The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c. 1816-48, p. 72
Caitlin Kitchener, Political Palimpsests: Landscape as an Organising Agent in 19th-Century Radicalism, p. 90
Graeme Morton, The Conservative Hold over Scottish Civil Society: Evidence from the 1854 Edinburgh Pollbook, p. 110
Kathryn Rix, Living Politics: The Professional Agents and Party Organisation, 1880-1914, p. 132
Laura C. Forster, Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c. 1880-1914, p. 152
Erin Geraghty, English Feminists, Imperialism and the Politics of Organisation in the Irish Suffrage Movement, 1900-14, p. 171
Richard Huzzey, Katrina Navickas, From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century, p. 188

Index, p. 203

Samuel Lane, Episcopal Attendance at the Parliaments of Edward III*, p.
Alex Beeton, ‘Private sollicitations’: Educational Reform, Parliamentary Committees, and the Visitation of Winchester College, 1649–50*, p. 334
Harry M. Lewis, The Glorious Revolution, Colonial Legislatures and Franco-Jacobite Forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1688–1727*, p. 348
D.W. Hayton, Party Conflict in an Irish Parliamentary Borough in the Early 18th Century: The Origins of the Kilkenny Corporation Act of 1717, p. 368
James Peate, ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806, p. 382
Ben Sayle, ‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–1914, p. 400
Sarah Moxey, A Motherwell Miracle and a Sponsorship Saga: the Motherwell By-election, 1945* , p. 421
Chloe Challender, Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th-century parliament, p. 439

Jonathan McGovern, An Early Draft of John Hooker's The Order and usage how to keep a parliament in England in these days (c. 1571), p. 188
Colin Helling, ‘The Earl Marischal's Maggot’: The Scottish Parliament and Foreign Policy in a Composite Monarchy*, p. 203
Richard Wendorf, Chesterfield, Scarbrough, and the Excise Bill: a new Manuscript Source*, p. 222
Ioannis Chountis, Edmund Burke, Parliamentary Reform, and ‘Nabob’ Influence: a Novel Argument, p. 233
Mikel Urquijo, The Concept of the Neutrality of the Parliamentary Speakership and Presidency. The United Kingdom versus Continental Europe*, p. 250
Paul Auchterlonie, ‘Our Guardian Angel in the House of Commons’: Sir Robert Newman MP and Legislation for Women, 1918–1931, p. 265
Betto van Waarden, Transnational Parliamentary Learning: How the British Parliament Observed Peril, Promise, and Practice in Parliamentary Broadcasting Abroad, p. 280

SETTLER COLONIALISM AND PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY – HISTORIES AND LEGACIES
Edited by David Thackeray and Amanda Behm

Notes on Contributors, p. vii
David Thackeray, Amanda Behm, Settler Colonialism and Parliamentary Democracy – Histories and Legacies, p. 1
Arran Jenkins, ‘Playing at Parliament’: The Rise and Fall of Popular Parliamentary Debate in Britain, c.1865–85, p. 17
Alex Martinborough, Writing Settler Constitutions, Debating Imperial Responsibility, and Managing the Conscience of Parliamentary Empire, c.1860–1910, p. 35
M. Max Hamon, A Métis Parliament: Louis Riel and Constitutional Debates in Red River, p. 54
Charles V. Reed, The Non-Racial Franchise, Constitutionalism, and the Mother of Parliaments in South Africa, 1880–1922, p. 73
Ed Selkirk Ford, Proportional Representation and the Birth of the Australian Nation, p. 89
David Thackeray, Respectability and the Silences of Settler Democracy: John Barr Becomes a Parliamentary Man in Progressive New Zealand, p. 108
Lauren Lauret, Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius, p. 126
John C. Mitcham, ‘Imperial Westminster’: Colonial Statesmen and British Parliamentary Politics, 1880s–1920s, p. 146
Rachel Johnson, ‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020, p. 163

CLYVE JONES (1944–2024), p. 265
Jonathan Mcgovern, Parliamentary Procedure in the Reign of Henry VI: New Light on Pilkington’s Case (1455), p. 266
Charlotte Brownhill, Wentworth’s ‘eye of the Court’: Sir George Radcliffe’s management of the Irish parliaments of Charles I’s reign, p. 276
John E. Davies, The House of Commons notebook of Pryse Campbell MP, March–April 1756, p. 291
Aglaia Foteinou, J.P.D. Cooper, Damian Murphy, Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800–34, p. 316
Richard A. Gaunt, Norman Gash: Political Historian, p. 338

Reviews, p. 359

PARLIAMENT, PEACE AND THE SUCCESSION 1710–14: THE VIEW FROM NORTH BRITAIN
Edited by G.M Townend, Stuart Handley and D.W. Hayton

Preface and Acknowledgments, p. viii
List of Abbreviations, p. ix
General Introduction, p. 1
Letters of Mungo Graham of Gorthie, 23 Nov. 1710–22 Feb. 1711, p. 5
Letters of Sir James Dunbar of Hempriggs, 5 Dec. 1710–17 Mar. 1711, p. 59
Letters of Thomas Smith, 27 Jan. 1711–[?19 May 1714], p. 76
The House of Commons Diary of Oley Douglas, 10 Mar.–29 June 1714, p. 157
Appendix 1: Members of the House of Commons 1710–14 Mentioned in the Text, p. 179
Appendix 2: Members of the House of Lords 1710–14 Mentioned in the Text, p. 190

Index, p. 193

Hannes Kleineke, Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380, p. 153
Michael Mendle, The Discovery of D’Ewes’s Long Parliament Diary, p. 166
Naomi Lloyd-Jones, ‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England, p. 183
H.G. Cocks, The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain, p. 207
Kit Kowol, Richard Toye, Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians, p. 226

Reviews, p. 249

ELECTIONS IN 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND: POLLING, POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION
Edited by M.O. Grenby, Elaine Chalus

Notes on Contributors, p. 3
M.O. Grenby, Elaine Chalus, Elections in 18th-Century England: Polling, Politics and Participation, p. 5
Chris Dudley, Voting and Not Voting in Early 18th-Century English Parliamentary Elections, p. 20
Kevin Tuffnell, A Tale of Two Poll Books – Wareham 1702 and Dorchester 1705, p. 36
Robert D. Tree, Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708, p. 53
Nigel Aston, Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722, p. 72
David Cowan, Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96, p. 91
Joshua J. Smith, Reading against Reform: The Bristol Library Society and the Intellectual Culture of Bristol’s Elections in 1812, p. 112
Ben Gilding, ‘No distinction exists as to religion, profession, or sex’: Imperial Reform and the Electoral Culture of the East India Company’s Court of Proprietors, 1760–84, p. 129

Index, p. 148

Ellen Paterson, Corruption, Conspiracy and Collusion: Anti-Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621, p. 289
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley, Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament, p. 309
Andrew Brunatti, ‘It Must End, or I Must End’: Castlereagh, Mental Health and Politics in Regency Britain, p. 348
Roland Quinault, The Referendum Issue and the Edwardian Constitutional Crisis, p. 377
Tim Aker, Re-assessing the Conservative Anti-EEC Rebellion of 1971–2, p. 391

Reviews, p. 409

Robin Eagles, 'Old and unfit for other service?' Maintaining the Fabric of Parliament c.1660–1760 p. 175
Eilish Gregory, Catherine of Braganza during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Anti-Catholicism in the Houses of Commons and Lords, 1678–81 p. 195
Louise Ryland-Epton, Parliament and the English County Magistrate: The Parliamentary Aspirations of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul 1780–1810 p. 213
David W. Jones, The Passage of the Welsh Church Bill under the 1911 Parliament Act and the Impact of War p. 234
Adam Evans, '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 p. 255

Reviews, p. 274

PASSION, POLITICS AND PARLIAMENT
Edited by Sarah Richardson, Natalie Hanley-Smith

Notes on Contributors, p. vii
Natalie Hanley-Smith, Sarah Richardson, Dangerous or Goodly Passions: The Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics p. 1
Kirsty Wright, Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609 p. 11
Natalie Hanley-Smith, The Political Mistress: Intimacy, Emotion, and Parliamentary Politics in the Late 18th Century p. 32
Caitlin Kitchener, Cato Street Conspiracy and Consuming Crime: How Radical Politics Fed into the Public's Passion for Violent Media Coverage p. 51
Kerry Love, Restraining Political Passion: Medals of the Birmingham Political Union and the 1832 Reform Act p. 75
Lucy Kilfoyle, 'That Gleaming Sword of Satire': Power, Passion and Parliament in the Mid-Victorian City p. 94
Amy Galvin, Passion, Parliament, and the Pen: Articulations of Female Citizenship in Britain, c.1790–1890 p. 113
Ciara Stewart, The Ulster Women's Declaration and the Passion of Women in the Campaign against Home Rule, c.1886–1912 p. 129
Lisa Berry-Waite, 'A rancour and a passion would be introduced into politics': Perceptions of the Woman MP in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain p. 148

Index, p. 168

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Kathrin Strauss, The Ceremonial Mace in the House of Commons and Great Maces of Cities and Boroughs in the 16th and Early 17th Century, p. 389-405
Jon Kukla, Grenville's Postponement of the Stamp Act Reconsidered, p. 406-425
Norman Gash, The Economic Achievement of Sir Robert Peel 1841-6, p. 426-434
M.K. Thompson, Edinburgh's Local Liberal Party and the Political Crises of 1885-6, p. 435-462 John Connolly, Matthew Flinders, David Judge, Michael Torrance, Philippa Tudor, Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968-2021, p. 463-490

REVIEW ARTICLE
Johann Sommerville, A House Divided, but Stronger: The Lords, 1604-29, p. 491-499

Reviews, p. 500

TEXTS & STUDIES SERIES 18: THE BOOKSELLERS' BILL 1774 LEGISLATING IN THE 18TH CENTURY: A VIEW FROM SIR HENRY CAVENDISH'S PARLIAMENTARY DIARY
by Phillip Johnson
Pages: i-xii, 1-526

David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks (1926-2021): An Appreciation, p. 235
Callum D. Smith, The 'Republican' Publican: 'Honest' Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784, p. 240
Elizabeth Hallam Smith, The 'Gothic Slum':MPs and St Stephen's Cloister,Westminster, 1548-2017, p. 279
Richard Holmes, Thomas Sinclair and the Political Representation of Presbyteria 1892-1912, p. 303
Marc Collinson, Inevitable Results and Political Myths? Ilford North's 1978 By-Election, p. 323
James Mitchell, Clifford Williamson, Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government, p. 342

Reviews, p. 366

SCRIBAL NEWS IN POLITICS AND PARLIAMENT, 1660-1760
Edited by Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich

Notes on Contributors, p. VII
Abbreviations, p. X
Robin Eagles, Michael Schaich, Preface, p. 1
Robin Eagles, Michael Schaich, Introduction, p. 2
Jason Peacey, 'A Knowing but a Discrete Man': Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England, p. 19
Edward Taylor, 'Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar': Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621-81, p. 37
Brendan Dooley, Davide Boerio, Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London, p. 62
Michael Schaich, (Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III, p. 83
Charles Littleton, Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I, p. 105
Rachael Scarborough King, 'SirMadam':Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters, p. 119
Alasdair Raffe, Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th-Century Scotland, p. 135
Leith Davis, Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising, p. 150
Robin Eagles, Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters, p. 167
Ugo Bruschi, The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James's in the First Half of the 18th Century, p. 184
Markman Ellis, Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century, p. 202
Kate Loveman, Afterword, p. 221

Index, p. 225

Richard A. Gaunt, J.P.D. Cooper, What is Parliamentary History Now?, p. 409
Amy Blakeway, Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528-48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority, p. 417
Jonathan Gibson, 'A Place To Speak One's Conscience In': Disciplines of Debate in the Protectorate Parliaments, 1654-9, p. 443
Bob Harris, The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787):Gambling and the Law in Later Georgian Britain, p. 462
Jason McElligott, 'United Britons & Irishmen': Cato Street, Proclamations, and the Insurrectionary Tradition, 1798-1820, p. 481
John Beckett, Hobhouse, O'Connor and the Nottingham Election of 1847, p. 502
Ben Sayle, 'Populist Constitutionalism' and the Unionist Party during the 1911 House of Lords' Crisis, p. 521
Max Skjönsberg, Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party, p. 543

Review Article, p. 563
Reviews, p. 572

C.J.Wright, Frances Harris (1950-2021): A Memoir, p. 255
S.J. Payling, The Rise of New Boroughs and the Decline of Electoral Localism: The Evolving Composition of the House of Commons, 1386-1558, p. 261
Andrea McKenzie, Inside the Commons Committee of Secrecy: George Treby's Shorthand and the Popish Plot, p. 277
Glenn McKee, Standing Orders and Precedents in the Irish House of Commons in the 17th and 18th Centuries, p. 311
Robert G. Ingram, 'State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes': The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion, p. 343
Christopher Shoop-Worrall, Leaps and Light Shows: Visual Politics in the Edwardian Mass Press, 1900-10, p. 362
Alistair Lexden, The Man Who Enriched - and Robbed - the Tories, p. 378

Reviews, p. 391

Notes on Contributors, p. VII

David Hayton, Linda Clark, Preface, p. 1
Paul Seaward, Why the History of Parliament Has Not Been Written, p. 5
Gwilym Dodd, William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution, p. 25
Paul Cavill, A.F. Pollard, p. 45
Chris R. Kyle, Constitutionalists, Despots, Whigs, and Revisionists: Tudor Parliamentary History in the 20th Century, p. 59
Stephen K. Roberts, King Pym and his 'Happy, Scrappy Jester', p. 81
Amy Blakeway, Laura A.M. Stewart, Writing Scottish Parliamentary History, c.1500-1707, p. 93
David Hayton, Parties in Parliament in the 18th Century: The Demolition of Robert Walcott and its Consequences, p. 113
Nigel Aston, John Brooke and the Namierite Succession, p. 131
Richard A.Gaunt, Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel, p. 148
Alex Middleton, 'High Politics' and its Intellectual Contexts, p. 168
Philip Bull, An Irish Party and the British Parliament: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Parnell and His Party, p. 192
Paul Corthorn, Enoch Powell, Parliament and Europe, p. 212
Michael Bentley, Parliamentary History: An Oblique Glance, p. 228

Index,p. 245