🚨The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2024 is open! The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in @Parlhistjournal The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2024 @WileyHumanities @HistParl @TheVictCommons @GeorgianLords #twitterstorians For details 👇 🧵1/4

RT @LibraryParlCA: #OTD in 1841, the “Act of Union, 1840,” was proclaimed. It united the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada under a…

We're looking forward to publishing both entries in Parliamentary History! @TheVictCommons @GeorgianLords @HistParl 🧵4/4

RT @HistParl: Fought #OTD (well, 2 or 3rd Feb - sources differ) 1461, the Battle of Mortimer's Cross. According to several chroniclers, t…

RT @HistParl: #OTD 1649, King Charles I was executed at Whitehall. In this blog, Dr Patrick Little looks at one of the individuals who sign…

Your current Parliamentary History social media officer is listening to 'George III' by @aroberts_andrew . He argues that George was not the tyrant of myth. Interesting stuff! 2/2

David Lloyd George was born #OTD in 1863. His consequential career covered the 1909 People's Budget and subsequent constitutional crisis, WW1, and the introduction of women's suffrage. He was also the only PM to speak Welsh as his first language! #History #Parliament #Wales

RT @HistParl: Born #OTD 1834, John Dalberg-Acton, better known as Lord Acton. A Liberal MP from 1859 to 1865, he is best known for his poli…

RT @labour_history: #OTD 1883. Clement Attlee born in Putney. After serving in Gallipoli he went on to form first majority Labour Governm…

Clement Attlee, prime minister of Britain's first majority #Labour Government, was born #OTD in 1883. #twitterstorians #primeminister In June 1951 he couldn't resist sending the following reply to a question sent in verse by a 15 year old school girl. It's wonderful!

RT @MirandaMalins: This very question set me on the path to writing my new book THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL which tells the whole family’s unique…

RT @TheVictCommons: #OnThisDay 1852 the Commons defeated Benjamin Disraeli’s budget by 305 votes to 286. This prompted the resignation of t…

RT @GeorgianLords: #WolfHall reached its (predictable) climax last night on @BBCOne - but this was far from the end for the Cromwell dynast…

In this free article, Richard Gaunt commemorates the 40th anniversary of Norman Gash's 'Lord Liverpool'. Margaret Thatcher publicly endorsed the book, and Gash, in turn, worked to accommodate her within Conservative party history. #History #Parliament

RT @TheVictCommons: Born #OnThisDay 1842 John Russell, later Viscount Amberley, eldest son of Lord John Russell. Described as ‘pure Russell…

RT @HistParl: #OTD 1910, voting began in the general election. This was the second election held that year, and the last to be held over m…

RT @durham_history: Check out this fabulous podcast episode from our very own @RichardHuzzey and @HansardSociety discussing petitions, parl…