Conferences, Seminars and Events
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The History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1640-60: a roundtable discussion
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People roundtable seminar, we hear from Alex Beeton and Patrick Little of the History of…
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The King’s Colonial Men? Re-migrants in Dutch Restoration Politics, 1815-1840
Our Parliaments, Politics and People seminar is back for the winter term. At next week’s seminar Dr Lauren Lauret of University College…
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75 Years of the National Health Service: A Political History of Health and Healthcare in Britain
In September, the History of Parliament celebrated our latest publication with St James’s House to commemorate 75 years of the…
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Women in charge? Parliament’s female Housekeepers and Necessary Women, c. 1690-1877
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Mari Takayanagi, senior archivist in the UK Parliamentary…
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Organise! Organise! Organise! Conference Reflections
Continuing our series reflecting on the Organise! Organise! Organise! conference hosted by Durham University and supported by the History of Parliament, guest…
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‘There is not a Minister on this Side, that knows any Thing I either write or intend, excepting the Master of the Rolls and Sir George Radcliffe’: Sir Thomas Wentworth’s reliance on his cabal in the Irish Parliaments of Charles I’s reign
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Charlotte Brownhill of the Open University. On…
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Horatio Bottomley – how a radical journalist became a right-wing populist MP
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Professor David Renton of SOAS/Garden Court chambers. On…
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Political practices: new directions in political history in the long nineteenth century
Continuing our series reflecting on the Organise! Organise! Organise! conference hosted by Durham University and supported by the History of Parliament, guest…
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Acts of Recovery: archival reconstruction in the digital age reflection
In September 2023, the UK Parliamentary Archives hosted an event to mark their collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of…
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Reflections on the Organise! Organise! Organise! Conference
Continuing our series reflecting on the Organise! Organise! Organise! conference hosted by Durham University and supported by the History of…
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Everyday Experiences of Politics: Material Culture in the Age of Reform, 1780-1832
Our Parliaments, Politics and People seminar is back for the autumn term! At next week’s seminar Kerry Love of the University…
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The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) Online: An exploration in Active Citizenship
Today is the official launch of the Letters of Richard Cobden Online. This resource contains a searchable collection of digital…