Oral history
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1945 Election: A political awakening
Seventy years ago yesterday the results of the 1945 General Election were declared. Although the poll had been held on…
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How does it feel to be a new MP?
This week at Westminster MPs elected for the first time will still be finding their feet. With such a large…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Priscila Pivatto & Emma Peplow, ‘MPs in their own words: the History of Parliament’s oral history project’
Our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar was an internal affair, as Priscila Pivatto and Emma Peplow spoke on the…
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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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Defection, by-elections and Europe… in the 1970s.
In tomorrow’s by-election in Clacton, former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell will contest his previous seat after defection to UKIP. Carswell’s…
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More memories from Westminster: New oral history material added to historyofparliamentonline.org
Our national oral history project has now interviewed more than 100 former MPs, and to celebrate we have added some…
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MPs and the Troubles
Thirty years ago today (17 June 1974) a bomb exploded in Westminster Hall at about 8.28am, which led to a…