20th century history
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Now available online: full interviews with former MPs from our oral history project
Since 2011, in partnership with the British Library, we have been interviewing as many former MPs as we can about…
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Reporting Parliament: Hansard, Throwback Thursday
Today in our ‘Reporting Parliament’ series for Parliament Week, we have a guest blog from the team at Hansard. Here…
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‘His life was lovely and pleasant & he died in glory’: the Hon. Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882-1917)
Continuing our series on MPs who died while serving in the First World War, Dr. Kathryn Rix looks at the…
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Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar: Henry Midgley, ‘Harold Wilson and the Public Accounts Committee 1959-63’
At our first ‘Parliaments, Politics & People‘ seminar of the new academic year, Henry Midgley discussed his work on Harold…
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Voices from our oral history project: Sir Teddy Taylor
Last month we were sad to hear the news of campaigning backbencher Sir Teddy Taylor’s death. In this blog we…
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When every vote counted: what minority government in the 1970s meant for MPs
With Parliament back and Theresa May’s government trying to pass controversial legislation, Emmeline Ledgerwood, one of our oral history project…