Monthly Archives: March 2022

‘She, yes, she was the only member of parliament’: Harriet Grote, radical parliamentary tactics and House of Lords reform, 1835-6

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Martin Spychal

In the fifth of his blogs on Harriet Grote (1792-1878), our research fellow Dr Martin Spychal explores Harriet’s relationship with the veteran radical Francis Place (1771-1854), her views on radical tactics and her increasingly resourceful strategies for influencing Parliament during the 1835 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Harriet Grote, Harriet Grote, Ireland, Parliamentary life, Voting and Divisions, women | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

‘Standing between two extremes’: James Wentworth Buller MP and the politics of moderation

Posted on March 3, 2022 by salmonphilip

The development of a more rigid party system has been a recurrent theme in many of our blogs about Victorian politics, including this one about ‘Defying the Whip‘. Few MPs, however, had their political careers destroyed and then resurrected quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Biographies, party labels | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment