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Paul Seaward

@pseaward1

Would-be historian of Parliament & of English politics in the C17th. Previously director of the History of Parliament.

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History Of Parliament (@histparl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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
Paul Johnson (@pjtheeconomist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Dan Jackson (@northumbriana) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On TRIH Dominic Sandbrook 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.

John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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)

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)
Barn Owl Trust (@barnowltrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

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!
Ruth Fox (@ruthfox01) 's Twitter Profile Photo

...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.

FRANCE 24 Français (@france24_fr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🐟 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 Plan B, l’économie autrement – France 24 ⤵️

Paul Seaward (@pseaward1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

HistoryandHeritageYorkshire (@genealogybeech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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
History Of Parliament (@histparl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New post today from TheVictorianCommons, 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…

Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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