We have now secured some funds from 18th Century Studies to provide a small number of bursaries to help PGRs and ECRs participate in this event! Send your proposals to [email protected] by 1 June 2024!

‘one of the suppressed characters of English history’, born #OnThisDay 1737 William Petty, 2nd earl of Shelburne, later marquess of Lansdowne.
He inherited Pitt the Elder's mantle but managed just 10 months as #PrimeMinister .
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This handy reference sheet provides a snapshot of who was who in the House of Lords in 1821, titles, family names, dates of creation, marital status, no. of children, source of peerages, etc.

There will be a quiz at the end of the period 😉
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The Georgian Lords have been away for a few days, but you can't keep a parliamentary historian away from another legislature...
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#DYK Daniel Defoe was a stockholder in the South Sea Company? He wasn't alone. At the start of the 18th c. people rushed to buy stocks in the company, causing the economy to soar. But the South Sea Bubble finally burst, crashing the stock market with it...
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🚨 One Week! 🚨 Get your abstracts in by 30th April for Depicting the Eighteenth Century in Media. Details and full CfP below ⬇️ #twitterstorians

Join us tomorrow when Mary O’Connor asks … Was it politics? The Conceptualisation of Extra-Parliamentary Campaigning, 1775-1832 history.ac.uk/events/was-it-…

Other dragon-slaying tales are also available.
From County Durham: the Lambton Worm.
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'Far from a fool, he probably owed his reputation of being one to the fact that the word for a bore had yet to be invented.'
R. Sedgwick on Lord Dupplin (9th earl of Kinnoull). One sometimes forgets how many wonderful put-downs there are in the pages of History Of Parliament.

Shortly before his untimely death in 1755, Lord Montfort petitioned the Crown for permission to develop land for a new London residence. His project never came to fruition and the area was instead taken on by the Spencers who built their house on it.
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#OnThisDay 1770 John Wilkes, released from King's Bench prison on 17 April, returned to Prince's Court in Westminster after a few days with friends in Kent, and set up shop in the street which would be his home for much of the rest of his career.
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'difficult to say whether he was oftener intoxicated with wine or ambition' [Walpole]:
born #OnThisDay 1690 John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, effectively #PrimeMinister from 1742-44. A titan of the early years of Hanoverian Britain.
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#ICYMI , on the #HistParl blog this week Dr Robin Eagles took a look at US 'Founding Father' Benjamin Franklin's opinion of British politics in the 1760s... @georgianlords

#Franklin
Read the blog here:
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Take your Seats! Read the new blog from Old Edinburgh Reborn, a Jean Guild Grant awardee. So what did the balcony at the old Parliament Building look like and do the seats still survive in situ today? Read on....
old-edinburgh.com/post/take-your…
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Another reference to Lord Montfort, this time very different from the piggy-back riding character of the Newmarket anecdote. Here he is depicted as a fierce dog rounding up the opposition peers at the time of the Warren Hastings trial.
Dr Chris Monaghan #HistParl #twitterstorians

With Jon Stobart I am organising a workshop on 'Representations of Country House Servants: Visual, Literary, and Prescriptive' Manchester Metropolitan Uni on 4 June.

The Call for Papers ends today - please do send us an abstract if you are interested in joining us!