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1820-1832 WINS INFORMATION SERVICES GROUP PRIZE
The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 ed. D.R. Fisher, won the 2010 Information Services Group Award form the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals for an Outstanding Work of Reference (Printed Category). Dr Linda Clark accepted the prize on behalf of the History, Dr Fisher and Cambridge University Press at a ceremony in November 2010.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The History has within the last eighteen months published its latest, and largest, sets of volumes. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, edited by D.R. Fisher, provides biographies of the 1,367 men who sat in the House of Commons in the twelve years up to the Reform Act, as well as accounts of politics and elections in the constituencies that returned them. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, edited by Andrew Thrush and J.P. Ferris, covers a period of equal significance, with 1,782 biographies and 269 constituency histories, as well as a pioneering introductory survey which provides a pioneering account of the House of Commons as an institution in the early seventeenth century. These two sets are both available from Cambridge University Press.
We've also published, in a new departure for us, a (relatively) short illustrated volume on the House of Lords, 1660-1715, as a curtain raiser for the work on the Lords which will be published within the next four years. It's called Honour, Interest and Power: an Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715, edited by Ruth Paley and Paul Seaward, with Beverly Adams, Robin Eagles and Charles Littleton. The book is available from Boydell and Brewer, to visit click here. All of our other publications are still available through Boydell and Brewer as well.
PARLIAMENTS, POLITICS AND PEOPLE: SEMINAR AT THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
This seminar aims to foster debate and encourage new research into the history of parliamentary, popular and electoral politics. Our focus not only encompasses political institutions, legislative reforms, events, individuals and ideas that are central to understanding the past, but also involves asking broader questions about the changing nature of representation and the relationship between state and society, centre and locality, government and the public. Our subject is not narrowly limited by geography or chronology: we welcome papers on medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods, and about other countries as well as the UK. We encourage a range of different approaches including comparative studies of different periods and places. Our programme includes papers by established scholars as well as early career researchers.
In recent years the seminar has had papers presented on a diverse range of subjects, including:
- A series of papers on eighteenth-century paintings and representations of famous parliamentary scenes
- A series of papers on eighteenth-century paintings and representations of famous parliamentary scenes
- The culture of popular petitioning in the nineteenth century
- The 1689 Parliament of Ireland
- French parliamentarianism in the late nineteenth century
Seminars usually take place on alternate Tuesdays at 5.15pm in Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor.
For the current programme, please visit the Parliaments, Politics and People page at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/
If you are interested in giving a paper or would like to be put on the emailing list please email reagles@histparl.ac.uk
Convenors:
Robin Eagles (History of Parliament, House of Lords, 1660-1832 project).
Paul Hunneyball (History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1604-1629 project)
Henry Miller (History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1832-1945 project)
Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1832-1945 project)
Stephen Roberts (History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1640-1660 project)