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Minority Ethnic History

  • Black History Month: “Pompey, Colonel Hill’s black”, and the politics of footmen in Queen Anne’s London

    Black History Month: “Pompey, Colonel Hill’s black”, and the politics of footmen in Queen Anne’s London

    Paul Seaward

    October is Black History Month in the UK and today we hear from Dr Paul Seaward, our former Director and British Academy/ Wolfson Foundation Research Professor about the politics of footmen and the amateur political ambition of a black servant……

  • The Conservative Party and British Indians, 1975-1990

    History of Parliament

    Today’s blog is from our 2017 undergraduate dissertation competition winner, Jilna Shah of Cambridge University for her thesis on the Conservative Party and British Indians in the long 1980s. Jilna was presented her prize by Chair of Trustees Gordon Marsden…

  • Dabadhai Naoroji: the life of the first Indian MP

    Emma Peplow

    Last month we were delighted to celebrate the life and work of Dr Dadabhai Naoroji at an event in Portcullis House, Westminster, in collaboration with the Zoroastrian All Party Parliamentary Group and the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (ZFTE). 2017…

  • Parliament and the 1965 Race Relations Act

    History of Parliament

    Passing legislation with a small majority is an ongoing problem for our current government, but this not an unusual parliamentary position. In today’s guest blog, Dr Simon Peplow discusses the difficulties faced by Labour in passing the first Race Relations…

  • ‘Parliaments and Minorities’ conference in May 2014

    Emma Peplow

    Here at the History of Parliament, we have two exciting conferences coming up in 2014 and 2015. Here’s news of the first one: The History of Parliament Trust, in association with the Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck…