Chartism
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Romantic Memory: Forgetting, Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes, c.1790–1840
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Matthew Roberts, the author of Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult…
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Parliament versus the People: the Newport rising of 1839
Dr Philip Salmon explores the Newport rising of 1839 and the clash between government forces and Welsh Chartists.
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Towards a sonic history of Chartism: Music, sound and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from Dr David Kennerley, a Leverhulme…
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The 1842 Chartist Petition – why over 3 million signatures translated into less than 50 votes
Today’s blog about the 1842 Chartist Petition is part of our focus on wider electoral and political reform throughout this…
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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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Why political history still matters
Dr Katrina Navickas from the University of Hertfordshire was the keynote speaker at the History of Parliament Trust and Durham…
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The long-lived charter: Magna Carta’s 800 year legacy
800 years ago today, Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede. In the last of our series celebrating the anniversaries of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Henry Miller, ‘Popular politics before democracy: the culture of petitioning in Manchester, c. 1780-1914’
Dr Henry Miller, formerly of the History of Parliament Trust, but now at the University of Manchester, reports back from his…