Elections
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The 1868 Boundary Act: Disraeli’s attempt to control his ‘leap in the dark’?
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the 1868 Boundary Act. As Martin Spychal of the Commons 1832-68 Section discusses…
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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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Event review: Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, 22 March 2018.
Today’s blog is a summary of our afternoon event about Parliament and Popular Sovereignty in the nineteenth century, which was…
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‘A little door to get in, and a great crowd without’: how to get elected to Parliament in early Georgian Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is still renowned as a poet, commentator on Ottoman society, from when she accompanied her husband…
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Public Petitioning and Parliament, 1689-1760
Today’s blog from Philip Loft, currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is part of our week…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century
2018 is the centennial anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 under the terms of which, for the…
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Georgian Christmas Recesses
For Parliamentarians in the early Georgian period, Christmas was not infrequently interrupted by the business of politics. Dr Charles Littleton…
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Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar: Kathryn Rix, ‘The professionalisation of electoral politics: the Liberal and Conservative party agents, 1880-1910’
At our last ‘Parliaments, Politics & People’ seminar, Dr. Kathryn Rix, assistant editor of our Victorian Commons project, spoke on…
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‘Of the utmost weight for the safety and tranquillity of the kingdom’: the snap election of 1747
The latest in our General Election 2017 series and launching our new blog series on The Georgian Lords, Dr Robin…
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‘Not another one!’: going to the polls in historical perspective
With UK electors heading off to the national polls for the third time in as many years and as part…