New Publication: The House of Lords, 1660-1715, out Tuesday 5th July 2016

The History of Parliament is publishing its first volumes covering the House of Lords.

The House of Lords, 1660-1715 is out on Tuesday, 5th July 2016. With 716 biographies of members of the House from the scandalous duke of Buckingham and the murderous Lord Mohun to the horseracing statesman Lord Godolphin, it’s the most comprehensive treatment of the institution at what may have been its most important period.

These volumes complement the History’s previously published work on The Commons, 1660-1690 and The Commons, 1690-1715, and with them we have a more complete and detailed picture of the personnel and work of Parliament in the late Stuart period than ever before. This publication will make it possible to explore remarkably closely not only the operation of the political world of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, but also its social, economic and cultural world.

To order your copy of the House of Lords 1660-1715, currently available at special introductory price, please visit Cambridge University Press.

To mark publication of The House of Lords 1660-1715, we are also offering our highly illustrated introduction to the period for only £15. Visit Boydell here and quote promotional code BB065 at check out.

For some tasters of the material uncovered, see our blog series on our findings, including the House of Lords and sports, families and duels.