It's always a pleasure to receive the physical copy of our journal, 'Parliaments, Estates & Representation'.
ICHRPI membership is €30 & comes with free copies of our journal plus a discounted fee for our annual conferences.
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#OTD 4 June 1644 the opening session of the First Triennial Parliament (1644-7) was held in Edinburgh.
See below one of several articles in #PER which investigate the Scottish Parliament in the 1640s, this time by John Young from vol. 21 no. 1 (2001)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
See the contents page below for this special issue of #PER
On 26 March, the ICHRPI held a remote conference to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Commission.
Peter J. Aschenbrenner (USA ICHRPI convenor) has provided short summaries of each of the 12 presentations which can be found at the link below.
ichrpi.info/news/
A reminder that applications for the Helen Maud Cam travel grant are open until 31 July.
This grant offers funding for younger scholars without permanent employment or other financial subsidies to attend our annual conference in Barcelona this September
ichrpi.info/helen-maud-c...
If you have not submitted a paper proposal but are interested in attending our annual conference in Barcelona this September (including the opening ceremony, sessions, activities, and official meals), you can still register until June 7th, 2026.
eventum.upf.edu/151854/detai...
New book review in #PER online:
C. Annemieke Romein reviews 'Towns between empires. Good governance and ‘police’ in case studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s–1800s' by Mária Pakucs-Willcocks & Julia Derzsi (CEU Press, 2025).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This ties in well with the theme of the first Parliaments, Politics and People seminar of summer term. @brendantam.bsky.social will be speaking about political sociability in late Hanoverian Britain. Find out here how to join in person or online on Tues 5 May: historyofparliament.com/2026/04/29/t...
Another book review is out in #PER online.
Mina Kuzminac (University of Belgrade) reviews 'Necessary women: the untold story of Parliament’s working women' by Mari Takayanagi & Elizabeth Hallam Smith (Cheltenham, The History Press, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We have another new publication out in #PER online.
David F. Banas (Central Michigan University) reviews 'Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800–2024'
edited by Terence Dooley, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ens plau informar-vos que el 78è. Congrés de la Comissió Internacional per a l’Estudi de la Història de les Institucions Representatives i Parlamentàries (ICHRPI) tindrà lloc a Barcelona de l’1 al 4 d...
eventum.upf.edu
Published in Parliaments, Estates and Representation (Ahead of Print, 2026)
At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 5 May, BrendanTam of the University of Warwick, will be discussing political sociability and
Following recent debates about drinking in Parliament, @emmapeplow.bsky.social has delved into the oral history archive to find out what former MPs thought of Westminster's drinking culture, and how it has changed since the 1960s.
historyofparliament.com/2026/04/28/d...
In a recent interview, the newly elected MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, has criticised fellow-MPs drinking whilst in Westminster. For Emma Peplow,
Published in Parliaments, Estates and Representation (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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History of Parliament
Volume 46 issue 1 of Parliaments, Estates & Representation has now been published in full online.
Special issue – 'Taking stock of 25 years of devolution in the United Kingdom'
Guest editors – Nathalie Duclos & Marie-Violaine Louvet (from @cas-ut2j.bsky.social)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/4...
