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The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (@mpilhlt.bsky.social) is also hiring a postdoctoral fellow in the new Centre for Legal History in India

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Three Doctoral Students – Centre for Legal History of India at Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory An academic position as a Three Doctoral Students – Centre for Legal History of India is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunitie...

See below details of an exciting opportunity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (@mpilhlt.bsky.social) for three PhD students in the newly established Centre for Legal History in India

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#LegalHistory #LegalTheory #ConstitutionalHistory

A reminder for this hybrid event next Wednesday

🚨Four Courts Press 50% sale on 2 titles until 9am tomorrow!

1. Bríd McGrath's study of the early C17th Irish Commons from our studies series www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2021/t...

2. A legal history of 🇮🇪 with chapters by ICHRPI's Coleman Dennehy & Colum Kenny
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The passing of the bill of attainder against the Jacobite Sir John Fenwick - The History of Parliament after a bitter series of debates, finally passed a bill that would result in the execution of the Northumbrian baronet Sir John Fenwick, for treason

#OTD 1696, a bill was passed that would result in the execution of Sir John Fenwick for treason.

Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses:
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And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

#PER accepts reviews of titles relevant to the scope of the ICHRPI, relating but not limited to parliamentary, legal, constitutional & political history. We welcome enquiries about potential reviews.

See our instructions for authors here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We would like to welcome our new reviews editor for #PER, Assistant Professor Nina Kršljanin (Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade).

Nina's PhD explored medieval Serbian law and and her research explores broader themes in legal and parliamentary history.

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Now hiring two Research Assistants interested in #history or #economics to support our scholars from Europe! These paid undergraduate roles begin asap and continue through Spring 2026.

Apply now to gain hands-on research experience ➡️ ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunitie...

@historyecon.bsky.social

Volume 45 issue 3 of #PER is now out in full. It has 15 research articles, 4 book reviews & a miscellany, with details of funding opportunities, the ICHRPI newsletter & information on our 2026 conference in Barcelona.

See the @tandfresearch.bsky.social website:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c...

Drinking to Australian Democracy

Colonial New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and politically charged toasts.

🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive

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A turning-point in the Wars of the Roses: the attainders of the Coventry Parliament - The History of Parliament As significant, however, as this Parliament was in the history of the Wars of the Roses, it had as least as great a longer-term significance. It saw the

#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament.

Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:

Volume 45 issue 3 of #PER is now out in full. It has 15 research articles, 4 book reviews & a miscellany, with details of funding opportunities, the ICHRPI newsletter & information on our 2026 conference in Barcelona.

See the @tandfresearch.bsky.social website:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c...

Political possibilities in a post-revolutionary world

On 26 November, 17.00 CET, join a workshop with Luis De la Peña on South America and the Balkans in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/C4S9K1I

Organised by our Political History and Diplomatic/International History working groups

Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850

An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers:

Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'

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#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory

“More the air of an assassin than of a gentleman”: Duels and attempted murder in eighteenth-century England - The History of Parliament The recent BBC adaptation of John Preston's book - A Very English Scandal - about the trial of the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe for conspiracy and

#OTD 1712, the infamous, and extremely violent Hamilton-Mohun duel took place between Scottish Tory the Duke of Hamilton and the Cornish Whig Lord Mohun. Check out Dr Robin Eagles' article on the violent history of duels in 18thc England here: historyofparliament.com/2018/06/07/d...

Annual Lecture: Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51 Join us for the History of Parliament Annual Lecture for 2025, given by Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds.

On 16 December, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking at this year's History of Parliament Annual Lecture!

His lecture on Clement Attlee's Labour Governments of 1945-51 is sure to be popular, so grab your FREE ticket below before it sells out:

As we approach election year in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, why not delve deeper into the history of Scottish parliamentary elections with this article by Nicola Cowmeadow from volume 33 (2013) of #PER which focuses on the role of noblewomen in the electoral process:

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Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament Unlike Westminster, Holyrood does not have a mechanism allowing constituents to recall their representatives.

BBC News - Plan to allow voters to remove MSPs backed by parliament
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CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026

Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Newly published online in #PER this week is Christos Papastylianos' (University of Nicosia) investigation of revisions to the Greek constitution in the early 20th century:

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#ConstitutionalHistory #Parliament #Greece #CharismaticLeadership #PopularMobilization

As it's bonfire night in the UK, why not indulge in some contextual reading on the English Parliament under James VI & I, 1604-10 by way of our 2019 Emile Lousse Prize winner, Deborah Kilroy (PER, vol. 41 no. 1 (2021), pp. 1-23):

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In a recent #OpenAccess article in #PER, Adriano Giuliani (Australian National University, Canberra) undertakes a broad investigation of the concept of sortition throughout political history, from ancient Greece, through medieval Europe and onto modern democracies.

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Published today in #PER is Dr Coleman Dennehy's touching tribute to Dr Bríd McGrath (1958-2025). Bríd was a renowned scholar of early modern Ireland and parliaments & was latterly a #ICHRPI member. Bríd will be sorely missed by family, friends & colleagues.

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In one of our newest #OpenAccess articles,
@allankennedy.bsky.social (from @dundee.ac.uk) views petitioning in early modern Scotland as a mechanism of interaction between ruler and ruled:

'Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland, 1660–88'

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From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69) This article focuses on the transition from the diet of estates to the modern parliament in Transylvania – a province of the Habsburg monarchy until 1867 and part of dualist Hungary between 1867 an...

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As our conference is in full flow in Sibiu 🇷🇴, why not take a deep dive into the C19th Transylvanian estates & parliament with this article from vol. 42 of PER (2022):

Judit Pál & Vlad Popovici, 'From the diet of estates to the parliament. The case of Transylvania (1846–69)'

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#ICYMI, earlier in the week we looked at the career of Nancy Astor over on our #TikTok channel.
#WomensHistoryMonth

Click below to see the video: