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Category Archives: oral history
Election 2017: Snap elections, memories of 1974
Last week Theresa May shocked the political establishment by calling a snap election. In the first in our 2017 election campaign series, we take a look back at the two elections of 1974 through the memories of our oral history … Continue reading
Voices from our oral history project: Sir Clive Bossom, Bt.
Sadly last month another of our oral history project interviewees passed away: former Conservative MP Sir Clive Bossom. Here we take a look back on our interview with him… Sir Clive Bossom, who died last month aged 99, was one … Continue reading
Voices from our Oral History Project: Tam Dalyell
Following the sad news last month of the death of the fondly remembered maverick MP Tam Dalyell, today we begin an occasional series exploring interviews with former MPs from our oral history project we have now lost… Since his death, … Continue reading
Parliament and the Suez Crisis
Sixty years ago this week the Suez Crisis was in full swing and parliament was in uproar. Here we discuss the crisis through the eyes of the Commons… The Suez Crisis is now seen by historians as one of the … Continue reading
The parties and Europe 2: Conservatives and Maastricht
Earlier this week we delved in to our oral history archive to discover the divisions within the Labour Party over Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) in the 1970s. In today’s blogpost, we’ve returned to our archive to … Continue reading
The Parties and Europe 1: Labour and the 1975 Referendum
The European Referendum campaign is now in full swing, creating heated political debate and causing some unusual alliances. In British politics, however, the issue of Europe and Britain’s role in it has been long-running and divisive for both the Labour … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century history, oral history, Politics, Post-1945 history
Tagged 1975 Referendum, EEC, EU Referendum, Harold Wilson, Roy Jenkins, Ted Heath, Tony Benn
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