Historian Debbie Kilroy tells the story of Britain through fifty-two of the most outrageous rogues ever to sit in Parliament.

Members Behaving Badly

Long before expenses scandals, Partygate and headlines about sleaze, Britain's MPs were gambling away fortunes, fighting duels, staging kidnappings, abusing their power - and occasionally getting away with murder.

In Members Behaving Badly, historian Debbie Kilroy tells the story of Britain through fifty-two of the most outrageous rogues ever to sit in Parliament. From drunken aristocrats exposing themselves on tavern balconies to corrupt ministers whose greed helped spark revolutions, here are the scandals, feuds, disasters and astonishing acts of misconduct that shaped the nation.

Packed with unforgettable characters, dark humour and extraordinary true stories, discover four centuries of British history at its most riotously disreputable.

Perfect for readers who enjoy history with wit, pace and plenty of astonishing facts, Members Behaving Badly reveals that Westminster has always been full of larger-than-life characters - and that some things never change.

Debbie Kilroy

Debbie Kilroy is a writer and historian. Having read history at the University of Birmingham as an undergraduate, where she won the Kenrick Prize, she founded the award-winning ‘Get History’ platform in 2014 with the aim of bringing accessible yet high quality history-telling and debate to a wide audience. Since then, she has completed a Masters in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford, receiving a distinction and the Kellogg College Community Engagement and Impact Award. An Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she has worked with Histories of the Unexpected and Inside History.

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