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Category Archives: 19th Century history
Hansard at Huddersfield: Making democracy more searchable
Today’s post is a guest blog from Lesley Jeffries of the University of Huddersfield. Lesley explains the Hansard at Huddersfield project which aims to provide some interesting search facilities and visualisations of the results from the record of the UK … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, 20th century history, economic history, History, legal history, Politics, Post-1945 history, Reporting Parliament, social history, Women and Parliament
Tagged BAME, Black History, Corpus Linguistics, Digital history, Digital Humanities, featured, Hansard, Hansard at Huddersfield, House of Commons, House of Lords, Linguistics, Parliament and the press, Parliamentary Reporting, Parliamentary speeches, SAMUELS, Suffragette, Suffragist, University of Edinburgh, University of Huddersfield
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The Speaker and the same question: a view from the Victorian Commons
In today’s blog Dr Philip Salmon, editor of the 1832-1945 House of Commons project, explores some of the historical background behind recent Parliamentary rulings relating to Brexit. The rules governing UK parliamentary procedure, not surprisingly, don’t often get much public … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, History, Politics
Tagged Brexit, Commons procedures, Erskine May, featured, House of Commons, House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, Parliamentary procedure, Same Questions, Speaker Bercow, Speakers of the Commons, Thomas Erskine May, UK parliament procedure
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Towards a sonic history of Chartism: Music, sound and politics in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from Dr David Kennerley, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. He spoke at our previous session on 19 February about his … Continue reading
Legislating Homosexuality: Codification, Empire and the Commonwealth
The final blog in our trio for LGBT+ History Month comes from our Public Engagement Officer, Sammy Sturgess. She considers how nineteenth century legal reform in the British Empire impacted the regulation of homosexuality and its Commonwealth legacy… 2019 is … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, 20th century history, legal history, Post-1945 history
Tagged 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Article 377, British Colonies, British Empire, Codification, Criminal Law Amendment Act, Henry Labouchere, homosexuality, India, Indian Penal Code, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, LGBT History Month, LGBT+ rights in parliament, LGBTHM19, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Trinidad and Tobago
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From celebrity to outcast: William Bankes MP (1786-1855)
Today’s blog is the second of three posts to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. In this blog we hear from Dr Philip Salmon, Editor of the House of Commons 1832-1868 project, about William Bankes who fled the country to avoid prosecution … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century history, legal history, social history
Tagged Cambridge University, Catholic emancipation, Duke of Wellington, Egyptology, Great Reform Act, homosexual offences, homosexuality, Indiana Jones, Kingston Lacy, LGBT History Month, LGBT+ History, LGBTHM, Queer History, William Bankes
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Legislating for the United Kingdom’s four nations in the age of reform, 1830-1852
Ahead of tonight’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, we hear from James Smith, a doctoral candidate at the University of York. He spoke at our previous session on 5 February about his research into a four … Continue reading
Posted in 18th Century history, 19th Century history, Conferences/seminars, legal history, Parliamentary buildings
Tagged British Isles, England, Great Reform Act, House of Commons, IHR seminars, Ireland, Legislation, Northern Ireland, Parliaments Politics & People seminar, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wales
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‘The House divided’: the creation of a second division lobby for the Commons in 1836
The huge publicity given to recent parliamentary votes on Brexit has put the over-crowded division lobbies of the House of Commons in the spotlight as never before and prompted the introduction of proxy voting on a trial basis. While MPs … Continue reading
