Oral history
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MPs’ memories of candidate selection
Today’s blogpost is from one of our Oral History Project interviewers, Emme Ledgerwood, who has used our archive to explore…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Priscila Pivatto & Emma Peplow, ‘MPs in their own words: the History of Parliament’s oral history project’
Our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar was an internal affair, as Priscila Pivatto and Emma Peplow spoke on the…
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Exeter elections in the 1990s: Witness Seminar
On 27 October we held our first ‘witness seminar’ at the Devon Heritage Centre as part of From the Grassroots:…
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Defection, by-elections and Europe… in the 1970s.
In tomorrow’s by-election in Clacton, former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell will contest his previous seat after defection to UKIP. Carswell’s…
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More memories from Westminster: New oral history material added to historyofparliamentonline.org
Our national oral history project has now interviewed more than 100 former MPs, and to celebrate we have added some…
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New website launched for ‘From the Grassroots’
Today, we are delighted to launch our new, interactive website for our HLF-funded project From the Grassroots: An Oral History…
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MPs and the Troubles
Thirty years ago today (17 June 1974) a bomb exploded in Westminster Hall at about 8.28am, which led to a…
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The Miners’ Strike: 30 years on
Thirty years ago this month the miners’ strike began. One of the defining moments of modern British history and Margaret…
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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…