20th century history
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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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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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‘Of unsound mind’? MPs, mental health and the 1886 Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act
Today, during Mental Health Awareness Week, we hear from Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-1868 Section and…
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The Conservative Party and British Indians, 1975-1990
Today’s blog is from our 2017 undergraduate dissertation competition winner, Jilna Shah of Cambridge University for her thesis on the…
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‘A gallant death in the cause of freedom’: Percy Archer Clive (1873-1918)
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1832-1868 Section continues with our blog series to commemorate those MPs who died…
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Life before the RAF: the young air services and Parliament
The 1 April 2018 marks 100 years since the formation of the Royal Air Force, a particularly poignant anniversary for…
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Women MPs in the 1990s
This month’s blog for the Women and Parliament series as part of our activities in celebration of the centenary of…
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‘All that he hoped for and all that he had he gave’: Philip Kirkland Glazebrook (1880-1918)
Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at an unlikely former MP…
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St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part Two)
Continuing from yesterday’s blog ‘St. David’s Day: Parliament and the Welsh Language (Part One)’, today Dr Stephen Roberts, the History…