{"id":19374,"date":"2025-12-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/?p=19374"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:16:00","slug":"review-of-the-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/2025\/12\/29\/review-of-the-year-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2025 has been a year of many changes for the History of Parliament, with new projects, a new office, and a new look! But despite this, our brilliant team have continued to produce hundreds of articles, lead groundbreaking research and champion political history across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s Connie Jeffery, our Public Engagement Manager, with a recap of 2025 at the HPT\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 has been another busy year for the History of Parliament team, and eagle-eyed followers of our project might have noticed a few changes in recent months\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some of the HPT Team at History Day in Senate House in November<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The most obvious being a new logo for the organisation! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout 2025 our Public Engagement team undertook a wide scale rebranding project, resulting in a new visual identity for the HPT. And it isn\u2019t just a new logo. In November we debuted new banners, leaflets and other new promotional material at the IHR\u2019s History Day in Senate House. Keep an eye out at future History of Parliament events and on social media as we continue to phase in our new look into 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rebrand is just one part of the History of Parliament\u2019s wider website redevelopment project, which has seen brilliant progress in the past twelve months. Earlier in the year Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow in the 1832-1945 House of Commons project, was appointed Digital Humanities Lead, tasked with continuing to redevelop our online database and public facing website, as well as thinking about how the organisation can move forward into a more digital world. We\u2019re excited to see where this development leads in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Just some of the many crates packed, ready to move to our new office!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The organisation\u2019s other major change in 2025 was a move into a new office! HPT staff spent the summer organising and packing up our former home in Bloomsbury Square in preparation for our move to Old Street, where we now reside. This was a major task for all of our research sections, many of whom had over twenty years of research notes, books and resources to sort through. Our new office marks a new era for the organisation, as we embrace a more collaborative approach to working and explore a new part of the city.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidst all of this change, work on our publications continued throughout the year. In 2025 over 300 biographies were written, totalling nearly 1 million words! In addition, our contemporary history section completed 18 new oral history interviews with former MPs and deposited 26 interviews at the British Library, where they will be archived and made available to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our staff also contributed to the more than 100 articles published on our website this year. Our most read post from 2025 was <\/a>Dr Andrew Thrush\u2019s look at how Elizabethan England reacted to an earthquake in 1580.<\/a> But it is an earlier article from Andrew that takes the crown as our most read post in 2025! Originally published in 2022, read his study of \u2018The Execution of Thomas Howard\u2019 here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The execution of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk<\/a><\/blockquote>