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Edmund Burke and the Brexit debates
For the second week in a row, parliamentary business is dominated by the government’s ‘Brexit bill’. For many, this bill…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Paul Seaward, ‘Do our buildings shape us’?
Last month our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, spoke at our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar on ‘Do our buildings shape…
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History of Parliament dissertation competition 2016
Every year the History organises a competition for the best undergraduate dissertation presented in 2016 on a subject relating to…
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Alex Lock, ‘Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810), national politics and the York county election of 1784’
Thanks to Parliament Week, we’re a little behind in our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar reports. Before tonight’s seminar, here’s…
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Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: Jason Frost, ‘Church, State and Parliament in the Late Eighteenth Century in the Martyrdom Day Sermons of 30th January’
Reporting back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar, Jason Frost (University of Westminster) spoke on ‘Church, State and…
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Cabinet resignations: an issue of principle
Following Iain Duncan-Smith’s high profile resignation from the cabinet this weekend, we take a look back at some other examples…
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“Contrary to the fundamental laws of nature”? The passage of the Declaratory Act, March 1766
250 years ago this week Parliament passed the ‘Declaratory Act’, aimed at limiting the damage of the earlier repeal of…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: Pitt and Fox
Last year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the anniversary…