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Conference registration now open: ‘Organise! Organise! Organise! Collective Action, Associational Culture and the Politics of Organisation in the British Isles, c.1790-1914’
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“To wring the widow from her customed right”: the debate about the ‘widow franchise’ in nineteenth-century Britain
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Registration now open: ‘Politics before Democracy’ Conference
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The horse and Victorian politics
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Politics before Democracy Conference
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The 1872 Secret Ballot and Multiple Member Seats
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‘Damn the secret ballot’: the UK’s public voting system before 1872
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190th Anniversary of the 1832 Reform Act
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‘Standing between two extremes’: James Wentworth Buller MP and the politics of moderation
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Happy New Year from the Victorian Commons!
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From colonial council to Parliament: the career of John Dunn MP
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Colloquium on ‘The British Aristocracy and the Modern World’
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The politics of a coronation: reaction and reform in 1821
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Pubs and drink in Victorian elections
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Vaccination and the Vote: a Victorian dilemma
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Professor Angus Hawkins (1953-2020)
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Elected without his consent: William Wilshere (1804-67) and the venal electors of Great Yarmouth
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A ‘pocket’ borough or a borough needing deep pockets? Abingdon’s elections in the nineteenth century
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MP of the Month: Thomas Barrett Lennard (1788-1856)
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Floods, Plagues and the Second Coming: Charles Augustus Tulk MP
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Sir Robert Peel and the modern Conservative party
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Happy New Year from the Victorian Commons!
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MP of the Month: Thomas Neville Abdy (1810-1877) and electoral misconduct
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MP of the Month: Sidney Herbert – still dancing to Nightingale’s tune
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Political Prorogations: a view from the Victorian Commons
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‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Thomas Jones Phillips (1790-1843): pioneering Tory election agent
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Political protest in the age of Peterloo
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Today’s blog from the editor of our House of Commons 1832-68 section, Dr Philip Salmon, is the first of many pieces in which we will discuss the Peterloo Massacre that took place in…
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Conscience versus constituency: the dilemma facing Henry Sturt MP
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Electoral malpractice and uncivil political speech: the case of Alfred Seymour MP
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Lord Derby, ‘centre’ parties and minority government
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MP of the Month: Henry Fawcett (1833-84)
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Upcoming event: Victorian Elections & Political Culture Workshop
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MP of the Month: John Barton Willis Fleming (1781-1844)
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Parliaments and Popular Sovereignty Conference
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MP of the Month: Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1825-1899)
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Reporting Parliament: a view from the Victorian Commons
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Parliaments and Popular Sovereignty Conference: Manchester
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MP of the Month: Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton (1806-81)
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Minority governments and major change: a Victorian view
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Local polls and general elections: a Victorian perspective
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Call for Papers: conference on ‘Parliaments and Popular Sovereignty’, 3-4 Nov. 2017
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Defying the Whip: ‘rebel’ MP of the month, Swynfen Jervis (1797-1867)
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MP of the month: James Barlow Hoy (1794-1843)
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Petitioning Parliament: two PhD studentships
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An ‘upstart from the ranks’: MP of the Month, John Thomas Norris (1808-70)
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MP of the month: Rowland Alston (1782-1865)
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MP of the month: William Pinney and another kind of ‘slavery election’
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180th Anniversary of Town Council Elections
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Goodbye and Good Luck to Dr James Owen!
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