Paul Seaward
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Seaward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaward |
| SIGNATURE | SEAWARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Parliament of United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6898-3627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1679 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700
Towards a history of parliamentary culture in the early modern world
This article proposes an innovative approach to early modern representative institutions, from the later fifteenth century to the early eighteenth. It argues that only a transnational, interdisciplinary, and comparative study of such bodies can reveal their shared culture and prominence in contemporary political discourse, public memory, and cultural production. Central to this new approach is the concept of ‘parliamentary culture’, which sees re…
Early modern parliamentary studies
In this essay, we call for a new approach to representative assemblies of early modern Europe and beyond. While there are vast national historiographies on their legal constitutional structure, little effort has been made to reconstruct the cultural and transnational dimension of such bodies, a phenomenon we describe as ‘parliamentary culture’. We argue that there is much to be gained from an investigation of the culture surrounding these bodies‐…
Why the History of Parliament Has Not Been Written
There have been legions of individual studies of the history of the English/British/United Kingdom parliament, which is not surprising, since its history is widely acknowledged to be so closely bound up with the history of the nation state itself. But there have been remarkably few attempts to put the story together, to try to consider the long‐term development of parliament as an institution. What would such a story look like? This essay discuss…
A Sense of Crowd and Urgency’? Atmosphere and Inconvenience in the Chamber of the Old House of Commons
The house of commons before the 1834 fire that destroyed it was small, poky, and uncomfortable. Its effects on the health, audibility, and behaviour of its members were frequently a cause of complaint, and informed the consideration by two select committees in 1831 and 1833 of what could be done to replace the chamber. This article examines the background to the appointment of the committees, and what their discussions reveal about the unsatisfac…
The Civil Wars after 1660
Matthew Neufeld. The Civil Wars after 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 17. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xiv + 284 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-815-9. - Volume 67 Issue 3
Divisions, Tellers and Management in the 17th‐Century House of Commons
Although we know a certain amount about how governments tried to plan parliamentary sessions in the 17th century, about the managers to whom they entrusted the task, and about the existence of factions and parties within the house of commons, very little is known about the exact operation of such groups – how they tried to secure the result they wanted through working together to manipulate their fellow members and the practice and procedure of t…
The Idea of Parliament in British Political Culture, Bolingbroke to Brown
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The Making of Parliaments
The Speaker in the Age of Party, 1672–1715
The discussion by King Charles II and his senior advisors in 1672 of the choice of a new Speaker for the forthcoming parliamentary session reveals both the way in which the appointment was prepared and the government's considerations in the appointment. Prominent among them was the Speaker's personal influence, and his personal views on the great issue to be debated, the Declaration of Indulgence. The choice of Sir Job Charlton, and the behaviour…
Sleaze, Old Corruption and Parliamentary Reform
There is nothing new about the existence of a political class, nor about the electorate's distaste for paid politicians. In the middle ages, voters made clear their preference for representatives who were prepared to serve without payment; in the eighteenth century, the increase in the number of MPs paid by the state, whether in salaried posts or as sinecurists, was seen as a corrupt and pernicious extension to the influence of the crown; in the …
Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 10
"Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. It is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the context of his writings in Leviathan and elsewhere on sovereignty and the government of the Church. Although presented as an account of past events, it conceals a vigorous attack on the values of t…
The History of Parliament
The Gunpowder Plot
The History of Parliament in 2004
The History of Parliament
Since 1951 the History of Parliament has been at work on one of the most complex and comprehensive projects ever attempted in British history. In its fifty years the History has published just eight works: but they include two hundred and eighty‐one years’ worth of political and parliamentary life in twenty‐eight volumes, twenty‐one thousand pages, around seventeen million words; over eighteen thousand biographies and around two thousand three hu…
Legislatures and their past
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
Constitutional and Unconstitutional Royalism
Counter-revolution: the second Civil War and its origins, 1646–48 . By Robert Ashton. London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi+521. £35. Sir Matthew Hale 1609–76 . By Alan Cromartie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x+264. £40. The old service: royalist regimental colonels and the English Civil War, 1642–46 . By P. R. Newman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+324. £40. Constitutional royalism and the search…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1275-b–1276, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1275-b Published: 01 November 1995
Politics under the Later Stuarts
(1995). Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party conflict in a divided society 1660–1715. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 114-116
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 430, February 1994, Pages 185-b–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.430.185-b Published: 01 February 1994
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.203 Published: 01 January 1993
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 468–469, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.468 Published: 01 April 1991
The Restoration
Sleaze, Old Corruption and Parliamentary Reform
There is nothing new about the existence of a political class, nor about the electorate's distaste for paid politicians. In the middle ages, voters made clear their preference for representatives who were prepared to serve without payment; in the eighteenth century, the increase in the number of MPs paid by the state, whether in salaried posts or as sinecurists, was seen as a corrupt and pernicious extension to the influence of the crown; in the …
Legislatures and their past
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664
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Towards a history of parliamentary culture in the early modern world
This article proposes an innovative approach to early modern representative institutions, from the later fifteenth century to the early eighteenth. It argues that only a transnational, interdisciplinary, and comparative study of such bodies can reveal their shared culture and prominence in contemporary political discourse, public memory, and cultural production. Central to this new approach is the concept of ‘parliamentary culture’, which sees re…
The History of Parliament
Since 1951 the History of Parliament has been at work on one of the most complex and comprehensive projects ever attempted in British history. In its fifty years the History has published just eight works: but they include two hundred and eighty‐one years’ worth of political and parliamentary life in twenty‐eight volumes, twenty‐one thousand pages, around seventeen million words; over eighteen thousand biographies and around two thousand three hu…
Constitutional and Unconstitutional Royalism
Counter-revolution: the second Civil War and its origins, 1646–48 . By Robert Ashton. London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi+521. £35. Sir Matthew Hale 1609–76 . By Alan Cromartie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x+264. £40. The old service: royalist regimental colonels and the English Civil War, 1642–46 . By P. R. Newman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+324. £40. Constitutional royalism and the search…
The Restoration
A Restoration Publicist
Journal Article A Restoration Publicist: James Howell and the Earl of Clarendon, 1661–6 Get access Paul Seaward Paul Seaward Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 61, Issue 144, February 1988, Pages 123–131, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01994.x Published: 12 October 2007
Behemoth, or the Long Parliament
The House of Commons Committee of Trade and the Origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664
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A Restoration Publicist
Journal Article A Restoration Publicist: James Howell and the Earl of Clarendon, 1661–6 Get access Paul Seaward Paul Seaward Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 61, Issue 144, February 1988, Pages 123–131, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01994.x Published: 12 October 2007
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXV, April 1990, Pages 478-b–479, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXV.478-b Published: 01 April 1990
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 468–469, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.468 Published: 01 April 1991
The Restoration
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.203 Published: 01 January 1993
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 430, February 1994, Pages 185-b–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.430.185-b Published: 01 February 1994
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PAUL SEAWARD PAUL SEAWARD Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1275-b–1276, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1275-b Published: 01 November 1995
Politics under the Later Stuarts
(1995). Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party conflict in a divided society 1660–1715. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 114-116
Constitutional and Unconstitutional Royalism
Counter-revolution: the second Civil War and its origins, 1646–48 . By Robert Ashton. London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi+521. £35. Sir Matthew Hale 1609–76 . By Alan Cromartie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x+264. £40. The old service: royalist regimental colonels and the English Civil War, 1642–46 . By P. R. Newman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+324. £40. Constitutional royalism and the search…
The History of Parliament
Since 1951 the History of Parliament has been at work on one of the most complex and comprehensive projects ever attempted in British history. In its fifty years the History has published just eight works: but they include two hundred and eighty‐one years’ worth of political and parliamentary life in twenty‐eight volumes, twenty‐one thousand pages, around seventeen million words; over eighteen thousand biographies and around two thousand three hu…
Legislatures and their past
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
The History of Parliament in 2004
The Gunpowder Plot
The History of Parliament
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 10
"Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. It is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the context of his writings in Leviathan and elsewhere on sovereignty and the government of the Church. Although presented as an account of past events, it conceals a vigorous attack on the values of t…
The Speaker in the Age of Party, 1672–1715
The discussion by King Charles II and his senior advisors in 1672 of the choice of a new Speaker for the forthcoming parliamentary session reveals both the way in which the appointment was prepared and the government's considerations in the appointment. Prominent among them was the Speaker's personal influence, and his personal views on the great issue to be debated, the Declaration of Indulgence. The choice of Sir Job Charlton, and the behaviour…
Sleaze, Old Corruption and Parliamentary Reform
There is nothing new about the existence of a political class, nor about the electorate's distaste for paid politicians. In the middle ages, voters made clear their preference for representatives who were prepared to serve without payment; in the eighteenth century, the increase in the number of MPs paid by the state, whether in salaried posts or as sinecurists, was seen as a corrupt and pernicious extension to the influence of the crown; in the …
Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture
The Idea of Parliament in British Political Culture, Bolingbroke to Brown
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The Making of Parliaments
Divisions, Tellers and Management in the 17th‐Century House of Commons
Although we know a certain amount about how governments tried to plan parliamentary sessions in the 17th century, about the managers to whom they entrusted the task, and about the existence of factions and parties within the house of commons, very little is known about the exact operation of such groups – how they tried to secure the result they wanted through working together to manipulate their fellow members and the practice and procedure of t…
The Civil Wars after 1660
Matthew Neufeld. The Civil Wars after 1660: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 17. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xiv + 284 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-815-9. - Volume 67 Issue 3
A Sense of Crowd and Urgency’? Atmosphere and Inconvenience in the Chamber of the Old House of Commons
The house of commons before the 1834 fire that destroyed it was small, poky, and uncomfortable. Its effects on the health, audibility, and behaviour of its members were frequently a cause of complaint, and informed the consideration by two select committees in 1831 and 1833 of what could be done to replace the chamber. This article examines the background to the appointment of the committees, and what their discussions reveal about the unsatisfac…
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