Social history
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Manchester and the Lancashire peerage: the background to Peterloo
In the latest blog from the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton considers the influence of some of the local grandees…
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The Inquest into the death of John Lees
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s third piece, which considers the inquest…
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The Man in the Moon: Peterloo and Satire continued
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with Dr Katie Carpenter‘s second piece about…
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Remembering Peterloo: protest, satire and reform
On 11 July 2019 the History of Parliament Trust, the Parliamentary Archives and the Citizens Project hosted Professor Robert Poole,…
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Peterloo and Satire
Our blog series to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre continues today with the first of several pieces from…
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Political protest in the age of Peterloo
Today’s blog from the editor of our House of Commons 1832-68 section, Dr Philip Salmon, is the first of many…
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Nancy Astor: A Mother in the House
Last week we heard about the Father or ‘Grand Old Man’ of the Long Parliament, so this week we have…
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Hansard at Huddersfield: Making democracy more searchable
Today’s post is a guest blog from Lesley Jeffries of the University of Huddersfield. Lesley explains the Hansard at Huddersfield…
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Ellen Wilkinson’s search for social justice in 1936
As #WomensHistoryMonth draws to a close we hear from guest blogger Laura Beers, Associate Professor of History at American University,…
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Towards a sonic history of Chartism: Music, sound and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from Dr David Kennerley, a Leverhulme…