Oral history
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Unlikely Parliamentarians 1: Modern MPs
This week is Parliament Week, a programme of events and activities that connects people across the UK with Parliament and…
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Parliament and the Suez Crisis
Sixty years ago this week the Suez Crisis was in full swing and parliament was in uproar. Here we discuss…
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The parties and Europe 2: Conservatives and Maastricht
Earlier this week we delved in to our oral history archive to discover the divisions within the Labour Party over…
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The Parties and Europe 1: Labour and the 1975 Referendum
The European Referendum campaign is now in full swing, creating heated political debate and causing some unusual alliances. In British…
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‘Speaking in Parliament: History, politics, rhetoric’ conference report
Last week, in collaboration with Professor Christopher Reid (Queen Mary, University of London, author of ‘Imprison’d Wranglers: the Rhetorical Culture…
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Memories of Thatcher’s fall
25 years ago this week the Conservative Party were in the process of electing a new leader after Margaret Thatcher,…
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Labour leadership elections through the years
The Labour party’s leadership contest comes to a close this week, with the winner announced at a special conference on…
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New website material on ‘From the Grassroots’
As many of you will know, over the past two years we’ve run a wonderful oral history project in Devon…
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1945 Election: A political awakening
Seventy years ago yesterday the results of the 1945 General Election were declared. Although the poll had been held on…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Kayleigh Milden, ‘From the Grassroots: An oral history of community politics in Devon.’
Reporting back from our latest ‘Parliaments, politics and people‘ seminar – our ‘From the Grassroots’ project co-ordinator, Dr Kayleigh Milden,…
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How does it feel to be a new MP?
This week at Westminster MPs elected for the first time will still be finding their feet. With such a large…
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From the Grassroots exhibition launched
We were delighted to formally open our ‘From the Grassroots’ exhibition last week at the Forum, University of Exeter. ‘From…