Fresh research in #PER: Teemu Häkkinen (Laurea University of Applied Sciences), Anna Kronlund & Hannu Salomaa (both University of Jyväskylä) use oral history to identify parliamentarians' understandings & formulations of security & defence policy in Finland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Parliamentary perceptions of security and defence policy decision–making in the Finnish parliamentary session of 2019–23

Finland’s decision to seek membership of NATO in 2022 provides an opportunity to examine the parliamentary role in decision making and to reflect on the key features of the 2019–23 parliamentary se...

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In one of the 7 research articles in this special issue, Andrea Pilotti (@unil.bsky.social) contends that there are discrepancies between provisions for and practices of Swiss parliamentary multilingualism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

Great to see this special issue in the flesh today. See the special issue in full online at the link below or you can sign up to become a member of the ICHRPI and receive your own copies

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

In July 1653, the Barebones Parliament was assembled. The 'Nominated Assembly' as it was also known, was summoned by Oliver Cromwell to take on 'the supreme authority and government of this commonwealth'. Cromwell was installed as Lord Protector by December.

The ‘Barebones Parliament’: an assembly of the saints, 1653

Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant Editor of our House of Commons 1640-1660 Section, continues our Named Parliaments series with the 'Barebones Parliament'...

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New article - published online (and open access) today in @ichrpi.bsky.social’s Parliaments, Estates and Representation - looking at the road to the 2011 further powers referendum. One for fans of failed rainbow coalition negotiations and the late lamented LCO process #devolution #senedd

Taking that next step forward: the 2007–2011 Welsh Assembly, the Legislative Competence Order (LCO) process and the path to the 2011 devolution referendum

In introducing the Government of Wales Act 2006, the then Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain expressed optimism that the legislation, the product of an intensely negotiated internal compromise...

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In this expansive #OpenAccess article, Benjamin Morel (@benjamin63.bsky.social, of Université Paris Panthéon-Assas) analyses the democratic implications of parliamentary speech in France from the Revolution to the present day www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

#OTD 16 July 1377 Richard II of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 was crowned at Westminster Abbey. #PER contains plenty of medieval #ParliamentaryHistory, such as this survey of the House of Commons, representation, elections & royal interference by A.L. Brown (vol 14 no 1, 1994). www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Just over two weeks left to apply for the Helen Maud Cam travel grant to attend our annual conference in Barcelona in early September See the link below for further details 👇 ichrpi.info/helen-maud-c...

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Applications are invited for the Helen Maud Cam travel grant for younger scholars without permanent employment or other adequate financial subsidy to attend our annual conference. The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2026. See the link below for further details: ichrpi.info/helen-maud-c...

Also recently published in our current issue of #PER is this study of French usage, language rights & policies in Canadian parliaments between the late C19th and late C20th by Marcel Martel (of York University, Toronto 🇨🇦) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

Also recently published in our current issue of #PER is this study of French usage, language rights & policies in Canadian parliaments between the late C19th and late C20th by Marcel Martel (of York University, Toronto 🇨🇦) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

The UK is soon to have its sixth Prime Minister in five years. In the latest entry for Scribble Book, @jhdavey.bsky.social has looked back over Britain's political history for previous moments of executive instability, to understand why some prime ministerial tenures can be so short...

Too many Prime Ministers?

Some historical examples of executive instability

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#OTD 10 July 1584 William I of Orange (b.1533) – the first hereditary Stadtholder in the Dutch Republic – was assassinated. Our former president, H.G. Koenigsberger investigates the revolutionary character of the C16th 🇳🇱 States General in this 1982 article www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We tend to think of the old chamber of the Commons as being a fairly static place, but in the summer of 1735 the press reported all the galleries and seats being taken down so the place could be overhauled during the summer recess: 'for the ease and emolument of the members...' #HistParl

In another brand new article in this issue of #PER, Patrick Taillon (@patricktaillon.bsky.social, from @ulaval.ca) traces the emergence & development of parliamentary bilingualism in Canada, which was aimed at redressing past tensions & preventing new ones. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

Over the next few weeks we will be spotlighting the articles in this special issue. First up is the guest editors' intro: 'Parler pour représenter: langues, droits et pratiques parlementaires/ Speaking to represent: language, rights and parliamentary practice' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Parler pour représenter : langues, droits et pratiques parlementaires

This special issue examines the relationship between language and parliamentary representation across the Francophone world through four complementary lenses: (1) a historical perspective on the fu...

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ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · last mo.

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

Volume 46 issue 2 of #PER is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rper20/c... Guest edited by Nadim Farhat, Éric Anceau & Philippe Poirier, the current issue addresses language usage, rights and representative practices in the French-speaking world #language #French #parliaments

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Dr Simon Payling has explored the motivations of Richard, duke of York, in asserting his claim to the throne in 1460. Was he driven by fear, or ambition?

Legitimism and the origins of the Wars of the Roses: the motivations of Richard, duke of York - The History of Parliament

Dr Simon Payling of our House of Commons 1461-1504 section explores the motivations of Richard, duke of York's motivations for asserting his claim to the throne in 1460...

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New in #PER online: Géraldine Rosoux (@universitedeliege.bsky.social) surveys the use of languages in the Belgian Constitutional Court, using the concept of 'deliberative space' as an analytical framework. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

L’emploi des langues dans l’« espace délibératif » en Belgique, à la lumière de la jurisprudence de la Cour constitutionnelle

As part of the theme ‘Constitutional case law on the use of languages in parliaments sharing the French language’ of the 2025 Spring School in Parliamentary Studies, devoted to The use of languages...

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Come & hear about @histparl.bsky.social's Oral History of Parliament on 24 June @19:00. With clips from David Blunkett, Malcolm Rifkind, Gisela Stuart & others,the session explores who makes it to Westminster, how Parliament has changed & who challenged its ways www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/westminste...

Westminster as told to the History of Parliament’s Oral History Project

‘A mix between arcane procedure and schoolboy-ish behaviour’? Westminster as told to the History of Parliament’s Oral History Project

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#OTD 18 June 1815 the Battle of Waterloo was fought. In vol. 21, issue 1 of #PER (2001) Maria Sofia Corciulo explored the constitutional context & implications of the battle in the 🇫🇷 Chamber of Deputies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We are delighted to publish our latest issue with a number of Open and Free Access articles from leading scholars, covering topics as diverse as social mobility in the reign of Henry VI, the 1876 Royal Titles Bill, and the May 1940 Norway Debate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

Parliamentary History: Vol 45, No 2

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Freshly published this week in #PER online is a pioneering article investigating uses of AI in French speaking parliaments. Gétho Oxéus, Stéphane Gagnon & Fotis Fitsilis, 'Intégration de l'intelligence artificielle dans les parlements francophones' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our Director of Publications, Dr Coleman Dennehy was recently interviewed by Herald of Legal History, the international student journal for legal history. You can watch the full interview at the link below www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhIY...

Interview: Dr Coleman Dennehy

YouTube video by Весник правне историје / Herald of Legal History

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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....

Necessary women: the untold story of Parliament’s working women

Published in Parliaments, Estates and Representation (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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See the contents page below for this special issue of #PER

ICHRPI@ichrpi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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. ichrpi.info/membership/

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/

News – ICHRPI

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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…

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....

Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800–2024

Published in Parliaments, Estates and Representation (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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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...