Parties
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Max Skjönsberg from the University of Liverpool revisits his…
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Parliaments, Politics, and People: The Referendum issue & the constitutional crisis before the First World War
Ahead of this evening’s IHR Parliaments, Politics, and People seminar, we hear from Dr. Roland Quinault, a Senior Research Fellow…
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The Favourite: The Missing Duchess
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Stuart Handley, senior research fellow on the Lords 1715-90 section, considers…
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The First Woman Cabinet Minister: Margaret Bondfield, 1873- 1953
In this new blog for our ‘Women and Parliament’ series, Dr Paula Bartley gives an overview of the political career…
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Parliaments, Politics and People: Patriotic Labour 1918
In the last session of our IHR seminar, Parliaments, Politics and People, we enjoyed a paper from Professor Emeritus of…
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‘I am a political animal, but I am not a politician’: Leah Manning as a sponsored parliamentary candidate in the 1930s.
Next up in the Women and Parliament series we hear from Dr James Parker of the University of Exeter. He…
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The politics of the royal bedchamber: what The Favourite does (and does not) tell us about party, Parliament and the court of Queen Anne
In this latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton offers some insights into the political background of the…
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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 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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‘The Second Reform Act of 1867: party interest or the road to democracy?’: A debate between Rt. Hon. The Lord Adonis and Kwasi Kwarteng MP
Last Tuesday the History of Parliament hosted our annual lecture in Westminster – also our new Director, Dr Stephen Roberts’…