Monthly Archives: June 2013

MPs and Queen Victoria’s coronation

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Kathryn Rix

Today (28 June) marks the 175th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation at Westminster Abbey. Naturally this major national event was attended by members of both Houses of Parliament. Although it was members of the House of Lords who performed key … Continue reading →

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MP of the month: George Faithfull

Posted on June 19, 2013 by salmonphilip

Continuing our recent focus on Victorian female voters and women’s suffrage, this MP of the month feature highlights the career of George Faithfull (1790-1863), a Brighton radical who clashed spectacularly with his former supporters over the rights of women voters … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name? Part 1: places

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Kathryn Rix

What do the following have in common: the site of the world’s largest Adélie penguin colony, one of Cape Town’s main streets and a car park in northern France? The curious answer is that they are all named after nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

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Researching Victorian MPs online: some useful but less well known databases

Posted on June 3, 2013 by jowen1832

In an earlier blog on researching Victorian MPs online, we considered various countries’ online dictionaries of national biography and how their content helped shed light on MPs’ interests across the British empire. In this post, we highlight some of the … Continue reading →

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