Conferences, Seminars and Events
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Exeter elections in the 1990s: Witness Seminar
On 27 October we held our first ‘witness seminar’ at the Devon Heritage Centre as part of From the Grassroots:…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Philip Loft, ‘Litigation, agency and oligarchy: the transformation and role of the Lords as High Court, 1689-1720’
Dr Paul Hunneyball, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1603-1660 section, reports back on our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’…
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Parliaments Politics and People seminar: Jennifer Wells, Crafting empire: republican imperialism and parliamentary policy 1647-60’
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar is back for a new term. Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the…
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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…
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Festschrift in Honour of Professor David Hayton, editor of The History of Parliament, 1690-1715
Last month, the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust (publishers of the journal Parliamentary History) released a festschrift in honour of Professor…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Naomi Lloyd-Jones on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history of the Irish Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’
Naomi Lloyd-Jones of King’s College, London writes a guest post about her recent paper given to the ‘Parliaments, politics and…
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Simon de Montfort and the Battle of Lewes
On the anniversary of the battle of Lewes, news of a new play that explores the causes of the battle…