Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones

Research Fellow, House of Commons, 1832-1868

nlloyd-jones@histparl.ac.uk

Current Research/Role

I joined the History as a Research Fellow on the House of Commons 1832-68 project in November 2024. I was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University and a Lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford. I was awarded my PhD by King’s College London in 2019, where I won an Outstanding Thesis prize. 

Research Interests

I am interested in the changing practices and experiences of political representation, participation and opinion in Britain in the long nineteenth century. My research focuses on collective action and the construction and reception of political communities and appeals. I am also interested in a ‘multi-nation’ approach to the history of modern Britain. I am the Modern Editor of the Scottish Historical Review. I also enjoy organising scholarly events, and recently collaborated with the History of Parliament on two political history conferences: Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945 and Organise! Organise! Organise! Collective Action, Associational Culture and the Politics of Organisation in Britain and Ireland.

Publications

Book

Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)United Kingdom? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) [co-edited with M. M. Scull]

Edited Collections

The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century, special issue of Parliamentary History (forthcoming, Feb, 2026) [editor]

Chapters in Books

‘Beyond Westminster: politics in Scotland and Wales, 1789-1914’, in T. Crook, R. Gaunt and K. Rix (eds.), Routledge Historical Resources: Political History in the 19th Century (London: Routledge, 2024) 

‘A new plea for an old subject? Four nations history for the modern period’ in N. Lloyd-Jones and M. M. Scull (eds.), Four Nations Approaches to Modern British History: A (Dis)United Kingdom? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) [co-authored with M. M. Scull]

Journal Articles

‘Introduction: Political Organising, Practical Politics and Histories of Politics in the Long 19th Century’, The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century, special issue of Parliamentary History (forthcoming, Feb, 2026)

‘“Shut Up! Sit Down!”: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England’, Parliamentary History 43 (2024), pp.183-206 

‘Roundtable: Four Nations’, Modern British History 35 (2024), pp.30-48 [co-authored with S. Akhtar, E. Hanna, P Hession, M. Hussain, K. Kumar, J. Ohlmeyer, I. Stewart]

‘“Liberal disaffection such as has not been seen in Scotland”: Home Rule, political organisation and the Liberal Party in 1886’, Scottish Historical Review 102 (2023), pp.116-153

‘The 1892 General Election in England: Home Rule, the Newcastle Programme and Positive Unionism’, Historical Research 93 (2020), pp.73-104

‘Liberal Unionism and Political Representation in Wales, c.1886’93’, Historical Research 88 (2015), pp.482-507 

‘Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’, English Historical Review 130 (2014), pp.862-887

Specialisms: modern British history; long nineteenth century; political history; political representation, political participation, political organising, four nations approach.