Monthly Archives: February 2015

MP of the Month: Edward Greene, brewer and businessman

Posted on February 26, 2015 by jowen1832

At Westgate, in the heart of Bury St. Edmunds, stands the historic Greene King brewery, first established in 1799 by Benjamin Greene, a member of a Nonconformist Northamptonshire family of drapers, and his business partner William Buck. The brewery had … Continue reading →

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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Martin Spychal, ‘One of the best men of business we had ever met’: Thomas Drummond, the boundary commission and the 1832 Reform Act

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Kathryn Rix

Originally posted on The History of Parliament:
At our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar, Martin Spychal, holder of an AHRC collaborative doctoral award with the History of Parliament and Institute of Historical Research, gave a paper on Thomas Drummond…

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‘He has wasted all the affections of my poor heart’: Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Rennie MP

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Kathryn Rix

Two years ago our Valentine’s Day blog featured the youthful romance between Jane Austen and Thomas Lefroy. Austen had died long before Lefroy entered the House of Commons in 1830 as MP for Dublin University. In today’s blog, we look … Continue reading →

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New book: Politics Personified

Posted on February 9, 2015 by millerhenryj

One of our former Research Fellows on the 1832-68 project, Dr. Henry Miller, has just published his first book, with Manchester University Press, entitled Politics Personified: Portraiture, Caricature and Visual Culture, 1830-1880. He shares some of the key insights from … Continue reading →

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