19th Century history
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Richard Aldous (University of Winchester), ‘Electoral politics in an age of uncertainty: the case of ‘Winchester Man’ 1830-1880’
Reporting back from the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of the year… Our seminar returned for 2015 last week…
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Time and the Commons
Our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, explores the development of the late night culture at the House of Commons… The above…
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The Eglinton Tournament 1839: A Victorian take on the Anglo-Scottish Rivalry
As the Scottish independence referendum draws nearer, Dr Gordon Pentland, of Edinburgh University, guestblogs for us in the latest of…
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Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Dr Geoff Hicks on ‘Memorialising Britain’s politicians: the politics of Parliament Square’
Our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar paper report, thanks to Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons… Geoff Hicks of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Naomi Lloyd-Jones on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history of the Irish Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’
Naomi Lloyd-Jones of King’s College, London writes a guest post about her recent paper given to the ‘Parliaments, politics and…
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Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Tom Crewe, ‘The politics of image and the image of politics’
Our final ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of term took place last week. Tom Crewe, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, spoke…
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MPs in the Crimean War, 1853-56
With the help of research undertaken by the Victorian Commons, today’s blog takes a look at MPs who fought during…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The struggle for political representation: Labour candidates and the Liberal Party, 1868-1888
The latest paper in our ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar series was given by Dr James Owen, of the Victorian…
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Launching the new website London Electoral History, 1700-1850
Today we have a guest blog to introduce a fantastic new resource for those of you interested in politics and…
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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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‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar – ‘Cobbett at 250: a failed MP?’
The Victorian Commons’ Dr Kathryn Rix reports back from our last ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar of the term… This…
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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…