Articles by History of Parliament
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Life before Parliament: the formative years of Josiah C. Wedgwood, 1872-1904
Last night at the new Newcastle-under-Lyme Library the History of Parliament’s Sammy Sturgess and Emma Peplow, along with British Academy / Wolfson…
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“The Cause of Decency against Indecency”: Lady Chatham and the 1788 Westminster election
The latest post from the Georgian Lords features a guest blog by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, biographer of the 2nd earl…
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Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood: new HLF funded project
Today’s blog is the first in the series about our activities in Staffordshire as part of our HLF funded project,…
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Wikidata, British Politicians and the History of Parliament Trust
Today’s post is a guest blog from Andrew Gray of University College London. Andrew explains his Wikidata project which now…
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Life Peerages Act 1958: First Women Life Peers
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the first life peers after the passing of the Life Peerages Act…
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Voice and Vote: behind the scenes
This blog looks at how the History of Parliament has been involved behind the scenes with the Voice and Vote…
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Currant affairs? Taxation without representation in early Stuart England
With tariffs on imported goods currently in the news, Dr. Simon Healy of the Lords 1604-29 Section provides some food…
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Irish MPs and the Crimean War 1853-1856
This week at the History of Parliament we are sharing the military history of Parliament through parliamentarians and their military…
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A Fighting Life: Commemorating Josiah C. Wedgwood, founder of the History of Parliament project
Today we hear from our Public Engagement Officer, Sammy Sturgess about our recent event in Westminster to launch our activities…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – Ex-servicemen and the Liberal Party: the Great War generation and the electoral and parliamentary politics of the 1920s
Today’s blog ahead of our Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research this evening, is from…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – The Victorian Palace of Science: scientific knowledge and the building of Britain’s Houses of Parliament
Today’s blog ahead of our Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research this evening, is from…