19th Century history
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Review of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! After all of the staff changes at the end of 2017 we started the new…
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Robert Lowe and the University of London constituency
Ahead of tonight’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar we hear from Professor Jon Parry of Cambridge University who spoke at our special Parliaments,…
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Round-table session: Digital humanities and political history: in memoriam Valerie Cromwell
At our first ‘Parliaments, Politics & People’ seminar of the new academic year, Dr Hannes Kleineke, Dr Ruth Ahnert, Professor…
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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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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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Tackling electoral corruption: how Victorian Britain reformed the trial of election petitions in 1868
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Act, an important part…
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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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Voice and Vote: Celebrating 100 Years of Votes for Women – a guidebook
Dr Paul Seaward is one of the editors of the “Voice & Vote guidebook” to accompany the UK Parliament Vote…
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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…