20th century history
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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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MPs in World War I: the Hon. Charles Henry Lyell (1875-1918)
Last month we marked the centenary of the last serving MP to be killed in action during the First World…
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A night in Parliament: Militant Suffragettes and Parliament
We are delighted to post this guest blog in our Women and Parliament series from one of the public historians…
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‘Peace for our time’: opposing the Munich Agreement
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the Munich Agreement, the now infamous meeting where Britain and France agreed to hand…
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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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‘He chose the forefront of the battle’: Lord Alexander George Thynne (1873-1918)
Here’s the next instalment from Dr Kathryn Rix (Assistant Editor of the House of Commons 1832-1868 project) in her series commemorating…
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‘One of my best and most reliable officers’: the Hon. Oswald Cawley (1882-1918)
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-68 Section continues with her series on MPs who died during WWI.…
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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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MPs in World War I: Francis Bennett-Goldney (1862-1918)
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-1868 Section continues with our blog series to commemorate those MPs who died during the…
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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…