Articles by Emma Peplow
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Review of the year 2013
As 2013 draws to an end, we’re looking back at another busy year at the History of Parliament, ready for…
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‘Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments’ Conference for 2015
Following last week’s blogpost about our 2014 conference, ‘Parliaments and Minorities’, today we have published an advanced notice of an…
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‘Parliaments and Minorities’ conference in May 2014
Here at the History of Parliament, we have two exciting conferences coming up in 2014 and 2015. Here’s news of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: Stephen the Great and identity in the Balkans
Our last ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar travelled far from the British parliament to the Balkans, as Dr Jonathan Eagles…
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Picture perfect: Could your images feature on the History of Parliament Online?
Here at the History of Parliament, we are always trying to find more images for our website. As you can…
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Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s
Over the past few days Parliament Week has been in full swing and events have taken place around the country…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Parliamentary oratory and images – a new approach to the study of late medieval and early modern political culture
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar returned for a new term with a paper given by three German scholars. Professor…
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Burning the House down: The Fire of 1834
Today in 1834 a huge fire swept through the old Palace of Westminster, destroying most of the medieval buildings. Caroline…
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Protesting MPs: Peterloo and its aftermath
The Green Party MP Caroline Lucas is due to appear in court tomorrow after her involvement in anti-fracking protests during…