Political Decision-Making on Security in British Parliamentarism, 16th to 19th centuries (B05)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252080619

This project examines the production and representation of decision-making in the English and British Parliaments between the 16th and 19th centuries. Parliamentary legislation is thereby examined micro-historically: it is considered as complex, nested, incremental and discontinuous events taking place within and beyond the debates in the Houses of Parliament. The project focuses on processes of decision-making on security. That includes both dealing with internal threats in the period of confessionalization as well as making decisions about warfare in Asia in the mid-19th century.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1150: Cultures of Decision-Making
• International Connection: United Kingdom
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Rolf Ahmann; Professor Dr. André Johannes Krischer