Comments for The History of Parliament https://historyofparliament.com Articles and research from the History of Parliament Trust Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on The origin of the Wars of the Roses? The marriage of Richard of Conisbrough and Anne Mortimer and the union of the houses of York and Mortimer by beth williams https://historyofparliament.com/2025/12/17/the-origin-of-the-wars-of-the-roses-the-marriage-of-richard-of-conisbrough-and-anne-mortimer-and-the-union-of-the-houses-of-york-and-mortimer/comment-page-1/#comment-36810 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:16:49 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=19231#comment-36810 Pugh’s material on Henry V and the events at Southampton (Conisburgh’s execution) are a must read, impossible to understand circumstances of either House otherwise. And look into the political carnage causedby the Coventry Parliament 1459, which Payling has also written about; if the Conisburgh-Mortimer marriage was a spark then the sheer lunacy perpetrated at Coventry was the point of no return (ie. civil war) for the country.

]]> Comment on The origin of the Wars of the Roses? The marriage of Richard of Conisbrough and Anne Mortimer and the union of the houses of York and Mortimer by Jonathan Spangler https://historyofparliament.com/2025/12/17/the-origin-of-the-wars-of-the-roses-the-marriage-of-richard-of-conisbrough-and-anne-mortimer-and-the-union-of-the-houses-of-york-and-mortimer/comment-page-1/#comment-36809 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:57:56 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=19231#comment-36809 Fascinating long game…

]]> Comment on Cricket in the Commons: a Victorian First Eleven by phtwyman@yahoo.co.uk https://historyofparliament.com/2025/11/20/cricket-in-the-commons/comment-page-1/#comment-36753 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:50:18 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=19087#comment-36753 William Deedes – was he an ancestor of the more recent MP for Ashford, excellent journalist.

]]> Comment on Michael Rush and the Database by Jacqui Stanford https://historyofparliament.com/2025/10/15/michael-rush-and-the-database/comment-page-1/#comment-36692 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:45:19 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=18808#comment-36692 Fantastic. Just all round fantastic.

]]> Comment on Descended from a giant: the Worsleys of Hovingham by Jonathan Spangler https://historyofparliament.com/2025/09/16/the-worsleys-of-hovingham/comment-page-1/#comment-36638 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:08:08 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=18608#comment-36638 The Worsley family left some interesting built architecture in Lancashire too, with one branch building Worsley Old Hall, outside Salford, and Platt Hall, south of Manchester City centre. The most well known of this branch became one of Cromwell’s ruling major generals in the 1650s

]]> Comment on Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916): the life of a queer MP at the time of the Second Reform Act by Jonathan Spangler https://historyofparliament.com/2025/08/11/lord-ronald-gower-life-of-a-queer-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-36528 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:12:56 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=18103#comment-36528 Very interesting material. Thanks!

]]> Comment on ‘Damn the secret ballot’: the UK’s public voting system before 1872 by clivemacd https://historyofparliament.com/2025/07/18/public-voting-before-1872/comment-page-1/#comment-36483 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:52:18 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=17712#comment-36483 Fascinating and instructive article.

]]> Comment on Peter McLagan (1823-1900): Scotland’s first Black MP by brettlangridge https://historyofparliament.com/2025/06/12/peter-mclagan-scotlands-first-black-mp/comment-page-1/#comment-36414 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:51:36 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=17401#comment-36414 😀☺ McLagan sounds like an interesting character with an even more interesting past. It's a shame that much of the evidence that confirms his multi-ethnic identity is found in the abusive comments and reactions to him by some of his contemporaries. Keep up the good work ☕☺😀]]> Excellent article and great research.☕️😀☺️ McLagan sounds like an interesting character with an even more interesting past. It’s a shame that much of the evidence that confirms his multi-ethnic identity is found in the abusive comments and reactions to him by some of his contemporaries. Keep up the good work ☕️☺️😀

]]> Comment on Parliament and the Church, c.1530-c.1630 by 17thcenturyengland https://historyofparliament.com/2025/05/29/parliament-and-the-church-c-1530-c-1630/comment-page-1/#comment-36386 Thu, 29 May 2025 16:19:35 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=17222#comment-36386 “… whose paper offered an account of how, pace earlier revisionist historiography, …”

Pace is in italics, and I don’t understand the sentence. Please could you clarify?

]]> Comment on Joseph Ablett and the treatment of mental illness in early Victorian Wales by David F Williams https://historyofparliament.com/2021/05/17/joseph-ablett/comment-page-1/#comment-36201 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:46:43 +0000 https://historyofparliament.com/?p=7344#comment-36201 My family inherited Llanbedr Hall from Joseph Ablett, Ablett became a middle name of the sons of John Jesse, my great great grandfather.
Immensely proud of the good work carried out by Joseph Ablett.

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