Elections
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Tackling electoral corruption: how Victorian Britain reformed the trial of election petitions in 1868
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Act, an important part…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – Ex-servicemen and the Liberal Party: the Great War generation and the electoral and parliamentary politics of the 1920s
Today’s blog ahead of our Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research this evening, is from…
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The 1868 Boundary Act: Disraeli’s attempt to control his ‘leap in the dark’?
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the 1868 Boundary Act. As Martin Spychal of the Commons 1832-68 Section discusses…
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The Conservative Party and British Indians, 1975-1990
Today’s blog is from our 2017 undergraduate dissertation competition winner, Jilna Shah of Cambridge University for her thesis on the…
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‘A little door to get in, and a great crowd without’: how to get elected to Parliament in early Georgian Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is still renowned as a poet, commentator on Ottoman society, from when she accompanied her husband…
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Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century
2018 is the centennial anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 under the terms of which, for the…