William Ewart Gladstone
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Prime Ministers in the House of Lords
The retirement of Lord Salisbury in 1902 marked the end of the last premiership undertaken from the House of Lords,…
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A ‘revolution’ in electioneering? The impact of the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act
Concluding her series on the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act, Dr Kathryn Rix of our House of Commons, 1832-1945 project looks…
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Tackling the problem of electoral corruption: the 1883 Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act
Marking the anniversary of the passage of the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act, Dr Kathryn Rix, assistant editor of the House…
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Great Parliamentary Gardeners- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Compared
The beginning of May marks the Royal Horticultural Society’s National Gardening Week, but many of the Parliamentarians in our volumes…
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Gladstone and Ireland: A Financial Approach
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Douglas Kanter of Florida Atlantic…
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The Prime Minister in the House of Lords: Gladstone and the Irish Church bill, 1869
For the past month the government’s Brexit bill has been back and forth both Houses of Parliament, re-awakening old debates…