In the late early 18th and early 19th centuries the Westminster constituency became notorious for its contested elections amongst its free and radical electorate, as well as
for its longstanding MPs the Whig Charles James Fox, and the radical Sir Francis Burdett. [...]
The surviving documentation from the prolonged political conflict in Kilkenny which ended in 1717 enables a close investigation of the nature of party divisions in an Irish
parliamentary borough in the early 18th century. Kilkenny was an extreme case: the disruption caused by ‘the rage of party’ within the Protestant civic elite [...]
The Glorious Revolution had a profound impact on the English overseas territories in the Caribbean. In 1689, a series of Jacobite risings took place in the Leeward Islands
seeking to reverse the accession of King William III and Queen Mary II. The risings were led by Irish Catholics and drew support from the deposed Catholic King James [...]
This article offers a new angle for analysing educational reform during the English Revolution. Although many aspects of the advancement of learning between 1640 and 1660 have
been discussed, this article examines its hitherto underexplored parliamentary nature. [...]
