Category Archives: Conferences/seminars

Legislating for the United Kingdom’s four nations in the age of reform, 1830-1852

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

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 →

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From Parliamentary Politics to Authoritarianism: A Reflection on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Posted on February 5, 2019 by

Ahead of this evening’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Evan Fowler, associate fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, recaps his paper on the Hong Kong special administrative region from our previous … Continue reading →

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Keeping up appearances: make do and mend in the old Palace of Westminster

Posted on January 22, 2019 by

Ahead of the first Parliaments, Politics and People seminar of the New Year at the IHR this evening, Dr Robin Eagles, Editor of the House of Lords 1715-1790 Section gives us a taster of his seminar paper from our last … Continue reading →

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Crucible of revolution: Parliament, Putney, and the politics of settlement in the Autumn of 1647

Posted on November 13, 2018 by

Ahead of tonight’s special edition of our IHR Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar in aid of UK Parliament Week (‘One person, multiple votes: university constituencies and the electoral system, 1868-1950’) we hear from Dr Sean Kelsey of the University of Buckingham who summarises … Continue reading →

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Round-table session: Digital humanities and political history: in memoriam Valerie Cromwell

Posted on October 30, 2018 by

At our first ‘Parliaments, Politics & People’ seminar of the new academic year, Dr Hannes Kleineke, Dr Ruth Ahnert, Professor Arthur Burns, and Professor Jane Winters offered some compelling insights into the evolution of digital humanities, its impact on the … Continue reading →

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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – St Stephen’s Cloisters: Politics, Patronage and Space

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

Ahead of our final Parliaments, Politics and People seminar of the term this evening at the IHR, here’s the blog from our previous session from Elizabeth Biggs of the University of York and Liz Hallam Smith of the University of … Continue reading →

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