20th century history
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‘Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor’: Thomas Michael Kettle (1880-1916)
Continuing our series of short biographies of the MPs who sadly lost their lives fighting in the First World War,…
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‘The thing is to get on with the War’: Duncan Frederick Campbell (1876-1916)
Our blog today returns to our series, all written by Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, of short biographies…
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David Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith: Liberals at war
Inspired by the political upheaval in many of our political parties after the Brexit vote, we’ve been looking this summer…
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A tribute to Harry Cobb
The History of Parliament staff were sad to hear about the recent death of Harry Cobb, Clerk of the Records…
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The parties and Europe 2: Conservatives and Maastricht
Earlier this week we delved in to our oral history archive to discover the divisions within the Labour Party over…
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The Parties and Europe 1: Labour and the 1975 Referendum
The European Referendum campaign is now in full swing, creating heated political debate and causing some unusual alliances. In British…
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MPs in World War I: Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington (1877-1916)
Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach had served as Tewkesbury’s Conservative MP for just over a decade when he was killed in action…