Causes and Consequences of Electoral Violence: Evidence from England and Wales, 1832–1914 – An ESRC/AHRC project based at Durham University. Youtube. Gowns and crowns- the State Opening explained. U.K. Parliamentary Papers - Basic Search. Chronological | The Statutes Project. This page lists volumes of statutes in chronological order, from the Act of Union between England and Scotland, up to the latest volume freely available on Google Books, that for 1955. The volumes linked are from a variety of series, and hosted either on Google Books, Internet Archive, or for a few volumes from the 1920s and 1930s, Wikicommons.
For pre-Union English statutes, the standard edition is that of ‘The Statutes of the Realm‘, which continues up to the end of Anne’s reign. Statutes of Great Britain (1707 – 1800) Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801 – 1918) British and Irish | The Statutes Project. Homepage. British Electoral History Since 1832. Women's Suffrage learning resource | Visit the Bodleian Libraries. Members | History of Parliament Online. How to use the History of Parliament's biographies of Members This database contains the 21,420 articles published so far by the History of Parliament covering the careers of Members of Parliament. At present the articles for the 1604-29 and 1820-32 Sections are unavailable: they will be published on the website late in 2012 and late in 2011 respectively.
The History has been compiled over a long period of time: the first articles were published in 1964 and the most recent were published in 2010. There is a considerable variation in the size and amount of information provided. In general, those sections published more recently should be regarded as much fuller and more authoritative, although for most purposes, the earlier biographies can be relied on. Each biography contains information on the Member’s family background, career and significant achievements, but the main emphasis is placed on the Member’s parliamentary activity, where this can be traced. The Victorian female franchise | The Victorian Commons. Welcome to the first of our guest blogs. On BBC Radio 4 tonight Dr Sarah Richardson presents a programme about the discovery of an early Victorian poll book listing women voters (click here to listen). Female participation in non-parliamentary elections before the 1870s is often overlooked, not least because the evidence is patchy and subject to wide local variation.
This guest blog by Sarah coincides with the publication of her new book The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain. When did women get the vote? By Dr Sarah Richardson This question appears straightforward. The reason that women were able to vote was due to the fact that many local franchises were based upon payment of poor rates, irrespective of the sex of the person paying those rates. In theory, women could also vote in parliamentary elections before 1832 as county, and many borough, franchises were based on property ownership.
Direct evidence of women voting is more rare. P. K. K. Accessing Hansard online: a research guide | The Victorian Commons. This post aims to expand on the information provided on our Resources page about accessing parliamentary debates online using Hansard. In 1812 the printer and publisher Thomas Curson Hansard (1776-1833) took over the publication of parliamentary debates from the radical journalist William Cobbett, who had been producing them since 1803. Like Cobbett, Hansard compiled his accounts of parliamentary proceedings from newspaper reports, particularly those in The Times.
They were not verbatim reports, and it was not until the early twentieth century, when Parliament assumed responsibility for its publication, that Hansard became the official record. However, from 1877 Thomas Curson Hansard junior (1813-91), who had taken over from his father, did receive an annual subsidy from Parliament, on condition that he included reports of debates on private bills and in committee, as well as those after midnight, which tended to be neglected by the newspapers. 1 Former Hansard Millbank site Like this:
Reporting Parliament: a view from the Victorian Commons | The Victorian Commons. Today we take it for granted that parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. In the Victorian era, however, there was no ‘official’ record. In this blog to end Parliament Week, Dr Philip Salmon shows how, before the advent of modern democracy, public interest in Parliament was sufficient for reports of debates to be produced and sold commercially. As democracy advanced, however, the public’s appetite began to change … During the early 19th century the way debates and other goings-on in Parliament were reported and broadcast to the public underwent fundamental change. It was during this period that Hansard, the famous record of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, first became established, while daily accounts of discussions in both Houses began to occupy a prominent place in many leading newspapers.
Thomas Curson Hansard (1776-1833) Not every attempt to cash in on the public interest in Parliament succeeded. Hansard’s approach, on the other hand, kept costs to a minimum. J. K. P. Hansard at Huddersfield. Hellenic OCR Team We are working with the Hellenic OCR Team, which is a crowd-sourced project aimed at digitising proceedings in the Greek parliament. Our Principal Investigator, Lesley Jeffries, and Hellenic OCR Team Co-Founders George Mikros and Fotis Fitsilis have agreed on the exchange of knowhow, methods and code to jointly tackle common challenges that are related not only to data openness but also to increased visibility and understanding of parliamentary data sources. Future plans resulting from this partnership may include joint conference announcements and scientific publications in the area of computational linguistics.
John Vice (Editor Hansard Lords) and Jack Homer (Editor Hansard Commons) We have been working in partnership with Hansard in Westminster from the outset. The History of Parliament Trust The History of Parliament Trust has been one of our key supporters and has communicated with its networks about the website. Corpus of British Parliament speeches (Hansard) The Victorian Commons | Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868. 1801-1900: The Nineteenth Century - United Kingdom: The Parliaments. BBC Radio 4 - The Syria Vote: One Day in August.
British History Online | European History Primary Sources. Created by the Institute of Historical Research in London and the History of Parliament Trust, British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. It is possible to combine a search for accessing primary and secondary sources using Geographical categories (East London, Midlands, North Scotland, South East, South West, Wales), Subject categories (Administrative and legal history, Ecclesiastical and religious history, Economic history, Intellectual, scientific and cultural history, Local history, Parliamentary history, Urban and metropolitan history) and Chronological periods (11th and 12th centuries, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century). Some important series of "parliamentary" sources are the following: Statutes of the Realm The full text of Statutes passed into law by the two Houses of Parliament. 3 volumes.
HCPP - Browse by Year. HANSARD 1803–2005. Homepage | History of Parliament Online. HCPP - Information Site.