Ep 1:3 Elections in James I’s England: How to get into Parliament and why on earth you’d want to

Elections in the 1600s:  Elections by show of hands, votes for saltpans, and did women vote?  

I talk to Dr Simon Healy about how Members of Parliament were chosen in Tudor & Stuart England, why people stood for Parliament, who got to vote, where, and why, and how elections were run.