Oral history
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Oral History at the History of Parliament Trust: new volunteers needed!
Dr Emma Peplow is the new lead coordinator for our Oral History Project. Today she is announcing a new round…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – The ‘Gothic slum’: MPs and St Stephen’s Cloisters, 1852-2017
In May 2018, Dr Elizabeth Biggs and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith introduced the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar to…
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Voice and Vote: behind the scenes
This blog looks at how the History of Parliament has been involved behind the scenes with the Voice and Vote…
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Women MPs in the 1990s
This month’s blog for the Women and Parliament series as part of our activities in celebration of the centenary of…
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Now available online: full interviews with former MPs from our oral history project
Since 2011, in partnership with the British Library, we have been interviewing as many former MPs as we can about…
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Voices from our oral history project: Sir Teddy Taylor
Last month we were sad to hear the news of campaigning backbencher Sir Teddy Taylor’s death. In this blog we…
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When every vote counted: what minority government in the 1970s meant for MPs
With Parliament back and Theresa May’s government trying to pass controversial legislation, Emmeline Ledgerwood, one of our oral history project…
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50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, 1967
On 12 July 2017 we brought together parliamentarians, activists and historians to mark 50 years since the passing of the…
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First steps in the chamber: making a maiden speech
For the one hundred or so new MPs who were elected in June, many have already achieved one of the…
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Memories of the 1974 snap elections
Last week Theresa May shocked the political establishment by calling a snap election. In the first in our 2017 election…
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Voices from our Oral History Project: Sir Clive Bossom, Bt.
Sadly last month another of our oral history project interviewees passed away: former Conservative MP Sir Clive Bossom. Here we…
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Voices from our Oral History Project: Tam Dalyell
Following the sad news last month of the death of the fondly remembered maverick MP Tam Dalyell, today we begin…