Tag Archives: Conservative

Scotland and the Conservative Party, 1832–1868

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Kathryn Rix

Gary Hutchison is a past winner of the History of Parliament’s undergraduate dissertation prize and is currently a PhD student and Wolfson Scholar at the University of Edinburgh. As he begins the second year of his doctoral research, he outlines his … Continue reading →

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MP of the month: John Wright Treeby and another kind of ‘villa Toryism’

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Kathryn Rix

In April’s ‘MP of the month’ post Dr Philip Salmon highlights the career of a Tory builder dubbed ‘bricks and mortar’ Treeby, who helped build parts of St John’s Wood and London’s first underground railway. One of the more surprising … Continue reading →

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The parliamentary diary of Henry Broadley

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kathryn Rix

One of our early modern colleagues at the History of Parliament, Dr. Stephen Roberts, recently gave a fascinating seminar paper on a parliamentary diary recording events from 1640 and 1641. Inspired by this, our MP of the Month is a … Continue reading →

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MP of the month: John Tollemache and the ‘thraldom of party’

Posted on March 25, 2014 by salmonphilip

Tollemache is best remembered for his pioneering allotment schemes, which originated the phrase ‘three acres and a cow’, later made popular by the land reform campaigns of Jesse Collings MP and Joseph Chamberlain MP. The allotments with three-bedroom cottages he … Continue reading →

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