The History of Parliament Research Hub provides free access to our extensive collection of biographies, constituency histories, general surveys and oral histories. Our work which we've been researching and publishing since the 1950s explores England, Britain and the UK's parliamentary history from its medieval origins to the present day.
Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard Cromwell are unique in being the only Mermbers of the House of Commons ever to become English heads of state. Few figures in English history have been more studied than Oliver Cromwell, and few have been more inclined to self-reflection and motivated by a sense of divine calling...
An agricultuarly diverse county remarkable for its large and independent yeoman squirearchy. Norfolk's principle ports were King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth and elections and county meetings were held in the city of Norwich. The freeholders were polled on four occasions between 1768 and 1817 and the representation...