Category Archives: Resources

Richard Cobden’s letters: the human side

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Martin Spychal

In this week’s blog, Dr Helen Dampier, Leeds Beckett University, uses the groundbreaking Letters of Richard Cobden Online resource to explore the human side of Richard Cobden. Helen is a co-investigator for the project, which contains a searchable collection of digital … Continue reading →

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Accessing Hansard online: a research guide

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Kathryn Rix

This post aims to expand on the information provided on our Resources page about accessing parliamentary debates online using Hansard. In 1812 the printer and publisher Thomas Curson Hansard (1776-1833) took over the publication of parliamentary debates from the radical … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year from the Victorian Commons!

Posted on January 1, 2022 by salmonphilip

This new year (2022) marks our tenth anniversary of blogging about Victorian politics and society. Almost 300 blogs have now appeared on these pages, mainly written by researchers (past and present) working on the 1832-68 House of Commons project at … Continue reading →

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MPs and religious affiliation, 1832-68: a research guide

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Kathryn Rix

One of the aims of our Victorian Commons blog is to act as a guide to resources for research on 19th century British history. Although our focus is on Parliament and electoral politics, the material which we have listed on … 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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MPs at the Old Bailey

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Kathryn Rix

The Victorian Commons would like to wish the Old Bailey Online a happy tenth anniversary! We’re joining fellow bloggers by contributing this post to this weekend’s celebratory blogging event. Our History of Parliament colleague, Ruth Paley, has also written a … Continue reading →

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Researching Victorian MPs online: dictionaries of national biography

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jowen1832

In the past five years or so there has been an explosion in the number of historical resources available online, whose content can be searched with just one click of a mouse. In researching MPs who sat in the Commons … Continue reading →

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