Paul Seaward

Among all the treasures in Hansard, this one, an account of the disasters endured by members of the House of Lords attending the Naval Review at Spithead in 1858, is priceless: hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1856-04-…

It is almost certainly one of those things nodded through Parliament without much thought but my god it looks terrible and symbolically physically enforces that separation between politicians and people which is very bad in the current climate

Ban balloon releases at events to protect wildlife - Sign the Petition! chng.it/c9gW2p4B7x via @UKChange

New post today from @TheVictCommons, and the first in a new series. Dr Martin Spychal explores the life and career of Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP: historyofparliament.com/2025/06/12/pet…

What a treasure. The British Library holds topographer Samuel Buck’s earliest surviving work, a sketchbook of his home county, Yorkshire, which he used on a series of tours between 1719 and 1720. The pen and ink sketches of country houses and

Birkenhead in full flow is a good example of a Victorian style of public speaking that started to die out in the age of the film camera and the microphone

Why is there no Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics edition of the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris? @OWC_Oxford @PenguinClassics stalbanshistory.org/archaeology/st…

🐟 Les océans sont plus que jamais menacés par la surpêche. ➡️ À Saint-Raphaël, dans le sud-est de la France, les pêcheurs ont créé une réserve marine : dans la zone du #CapRoux, la pêche est interdite. Résultat : la faune et la flore renaissent. Un reportage signé @PlanBf24 ⤵️

...tell them and are thus content to go along with the process. This #AssistedDying Bill is different because their front benches are not guiding them and the weaknesses in the process are therefore coming to the fore as MPs grapple with it themselves.

Excited to announce a packed programme of events for EMECC in Spring 2025 @WarwickHistory: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo… Including talks by @DrRosamundOates, @SarCaputo, Carlos Alves, @JoplingNathan, @DrLiz_Egan, @Imogen_Knox, @pseaward1 #twitterstorians #earlymodern

Here are a couple of Little Owl boxes that our Conservation Team installed recently at a local site where the residents have been hearing their distinctive calls 🤩🦉 Little Owls are rapidly disappearing in Devon and so if anyone sees or hears them about, please let us know!

Early Modern Diplomacy Ambassadors leaving the Hague Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1620-26 1st carriage: Charles d'Espesses, French ambassador 2nd: Sir Dudley Carleton, English ambassador 3rd: Probably Alvise Contarini, Venetian (British Museum)

On TRIH @dcsandbrook made the point that Neville Chamberlain wasn’t the weedy pushover of popular memory; instead he was personally formidable, steely and often quite arrogant. And you get a sense of it in this (rather hammy) performance from 1934.

The proposed rules for the 119th Congress – TL;DR: (1)

Genuinely I don’t get politicians. This was obviously a campaign with little merit. How can serious people hoping for high office support knowing they can’t deliver? Similar with all three main parties at different times on student finance, and on tax and spend in last election

The controversial origins of centralised agenda control at Westminster  | The Constitution Unit Blog

The final episode of our podcast, Tales from the Green Benches, is out today! In this episode Emma and Alex take a closer look at the impact that being an MP could have on Members' personal lives, particularly in the late 20th c. Find the series wherever you get your podcasts!

9 Dec 1674: d. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, of a stroke in exile at #Rouen #otd (BM) His history of the Civil Wars & Commonwealth remains an important source for historians

Trouble over House of Commons Christmas card - 2 (The Scotsman, 23 August 1965)

Trouble over House of Commons Christmas card -1 (Liverpool Daily Post, 23 October 1972)