Articles by Emma Peplow
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From the Grassroots: The official launch
Last week we made the trip down to the wonderful Devon Heritage Centre for the official launch of our new…
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‘From the Grassroots’ launch event: you’re invited!
As you will all know, we are very excited here about our new oral history project ‘From the Grassroots: An…
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Review of the year 2013
As 2013 draws to an end, we’re looking back at another busy year at the History of Parliament, ready for…
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Class and Parliament
MPs’ social background has been making the news recently, after a study conducted by the Conservative think tank Policy Exchange…
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‘Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments’ Conference for 2015
Following last week’s blogpost about our 2014 conference, ‘Parliaments and Minorities’, today we have published an advanced notice of an…
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‘Parliaments and Minorities’ conference in May 2014
Here at the History of Parliament, we have two exciting conferences coming up in 2014 and 2015. Here’s news of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: Stephen the Great and identity in the Balkans
Our last ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar travelled far from the British parliament to the Balkans, as Dr Jonathan Eagles…
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Picture perfect: Could your images feature on the History of Parliament Online?
Here at the History of Parliament, we are always trying to find more images for our website. As you can…
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Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s
Over the past few days Parliament Week has been in full swing and events have taken place around the country…
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The History of Parliament Annual Lecture 2013 – Baroness Patricia Hollis ‘The Hopes of the Suffragettes: were they realised?’
Today marks the start of Parliament week, the annual programme of events to inspire, engage and connect people with parliamentary…
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Apprehending Guy Fawkes, with the help of his garters
As the country prepares for Bonfire Night, we take a look at the two men, both MPs, who caught Guy…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Parliamentary oratory and images – a new approach to the study of late medieval and early modern political culture
Our ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar returned for a new term with a paper given by three German scholars. Professor…