{"id":2,"date":"2012-10-30T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:33:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The History of Parliament is a major academic project to create a scholarly reference work describing the members, constituencies and activities of the Parliament of England and the United Kingdom. The published volumes, to date, contains around 24,000 biographical articles on MPs from 1386 to 1832, and well over 2,000 articles on constituency politics and elections over the same period, as well as our introductory surveys which analyse and introduce this information. All of this material, save the most recently published volumes (1604-29) is available online at the History of Parliament online website.<\/p>\n

Based in Bloomsbury, London, the History\u2019s academics are currently researching both the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the medieval, early modern and Victorian periods. More information can be found on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also follow the research of our 1832-68 project at their Victorian Commons<\/a> blog, and our Director<\/a>\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The published volumes, to date, contains around 24,000 biographical articles on MPs from 1386 to 1832, and well over 2,000 articles on constituency politics and elections over the same period, as well as our introductory … Continue reading About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41328208,"featured_media":19533,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2QYNW-2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1514,"url":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/the-georgian-lords\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to the Georgian Lords\u2026","author":"Emma Peplow","date":"May 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the Georgian Lords blog series Click here to read our blog posts The House of Lords, c.1809 by Thomas Rowlandson (1756\u20131827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762\u20131832), via Wikimedia Commons Posts here are written by our House of Lords 1715-1790 section and friends, highlighting the new research from our\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historyofparliament.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lords-books.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/the-commons-in-the-wars-of-the-roses\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":1},"title":"The Commons in the Wars of the Roses","author":"","date":"October 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the blog page of the House of Commons 1461-1504 project at the History of Parliament Trust. 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