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Defection, by-elections and Europe… in the 1970s.
In tomorrow’s by-election in Clacton, former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell will contest his previous seat after defection to UKIP. Carswell’s…
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More memories from Westminster: New oral history material added to historyofparliamentonline.org
Our national oral history project has now interviewed more than 100 former MPs, and to celebrate we have added some…
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The ‘White Warfare of the South’: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition and the First World War
This week the country is marking the 100th anniversary of Britain’s entry into the First World War. As Dr Robin…
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MPs and the Troubles
Thirty years ago today (17 June 1974) a bomb exploded in Westminster Hall at about 8.28am, which led to a…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Harshan Kumarasingham on ‘The quest for “Eastminster”: the British parliamentary system and the foundation of independent south Asia’
Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons reports back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… The ‘Parliaments, Politics…