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Category Archives: Conferences/seminars
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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From Parliamentary Politics to Authoritarianism: A Reflection on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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
Keeping up appearances: make do and mend in the old Palace of Westminster
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
Posted in 18th Century history, Conferences/seminars, Early modern history, Royal family
Tagged Design, House of Commons, House of Lords, Interior Design, Palace of Westminster, Palace of Westminster fire, Queen Anne, Sir Christopher Wren, The Favourite, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall
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Crucible of revolution: Parliament, Putney, and the politics of settlement in the Autumn of 1647
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
Round-table session: Digital humanities and political history: in memoriam Valerie Cromwell
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
Posted in 16th Century history, 17th Century history, 18th Century history, 19th Century history, 20th century history, Conferences/seminars, Early modern history, Events, medieval history
Tagged Digital history, Digital Humanities, ICHRPI, IHR seminars, Parliaments Politics & People seminar, Valerie Cromwell
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar – St Stephen’s Cloisters: Politics, Patronage and Space
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