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Our senior research fellow Martin Spychal featured on @BBCRadio4 last week talking about the history of 'taking the Chiltern Hundreds'. Catch up here (from about 14:39): bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wkx…
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Our third George is George Donisthorpe Thompson, a noted platform orator and campaigner for the abolition of slavery (among many other causes), who was elected as MP for Tower Hamlets in 1847. Find out more about him here: victoriancommons.wordpress.c…
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Charlotte Brontë was born #OnThisDay 210 years ago. In June 1850 she visited the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons to listen to MPs debating, as featured in our article: victoriancommons.wordpress.c…
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Benjamin Disraeli, twice Conservative prime minister, died #OnThisDay 1881. He has featured in several of our blogs. This post looked at his relationship with his fellow Maidstone MP Wyndham Lewis, whose widow became Disraeli’s wife: victoriancommons.wordpress.c…
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Henry Austin Bruce, Liberal MP for Merthyr Tydfil, 1852-68, & Renfrewshire, 1869-73, was born #OnThisDay 1815. His many official roles included serving as Home Secretary, 1868-73, President @AberUni & President @RoyalHistSoc 1878-91. He was created Baron Aberdare in 1873.
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Great to see our assistant editor Dr Kathryn Rix's article featured in this collection edited by our research fellow Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones.
@KathrynRix examines the professional constituency agents of the Liberal and Conservative Parties between elections in English constituencies between 1880 and 1914. The article can currently be read for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Caitlin Kitchener approaches the practice of political decision-making from an historical archaeological perspective. Using St Peter’s Field as a case study, the article views landscape as an ‘active organising agent’. Read the article for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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