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Unlikely Parliamentarians 4: a view from the Victorian Commons

Philip Salmon

November 17, 2016

This week is Parliament Week, a programme of events and activities that connects people across the UK with Parliament and…
Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Miles Taylor, ‘Ritualism from below: St Stephen’s crypt, Westminster and its uses, c.1865-1955’

History of Parliament

October 26, 2016

Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar returned last week for a new academic year! Here’s our first report of the…
Parliamentary timetabling

Paul Seaward

October 12, 2016

Back to Westminster for MPs this week! Our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, discusses the history of the parliamentary timetable… It…
Jane Campbell: Parliamentary divorce pioneer

History of Parliament

October 5, 2016

On 23 June 1801, a woman called Jane Campbell divorced her husband Edward Addison by Act of Parliament, and became…
Parliament, patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms

Robin Eagles

September 7, 2016

As the Proms come to an end this Saturday with the traditional ‘Last Night’, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow…
Party splits and political change in the 19th century

Philip Salmon

August 17, 2016

This summer, following the internal wrangling that occurred in most parties following the Brexit referendum, we’ve been taking a look…
Peers on Parade: A Sartorial History of the State Opening of Parliament

History of Parliament

May 18, 2016

Today’s guestblog is from Dr Charles Farris, University of Westminster, who discusses the history of the ceremonial attire worn at…
Electioneering in Sheffield Brightside… in 1897

Kathryn Rix

May 5, 2016

Today voters across the country go to the polls. In Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, electors will choose their new MP…
Cabinet resignations: an issue of principle

Emma Peplow

March 22, 2016

Following Iain Duncan-Smith’s high profile resignation from the cabinet this weekend, we take a look back at some other examples…
‘The Story of Parliament’: Parnell and obstruction

Paul Seaward

March 9, 2016

Last year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the anniversary…
Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: James Ford, ‘United under one roof, though separated by different arches and mouldings, Representing the Union in the Central Lobby mosaics’

History of Parliament

March 1, 2016

At our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar, James Ford (University of Nottingham) spoke on ‘‘United under one roof, though separated…
Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’

History of Parliament

February 2, 2016

In the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) spoke on ‘‘Big data’…

Victorian

Party splits and political change in the 19th century

Electioneering in Sheffield Brightside… in 1897

Cabinet resignations: an issue of principle

Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’

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