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THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES COMPETITIONS 2009
The prize in our essay competition for A level students is to be awarded to Basil Davies, of Lancaster Grammar School, for his essay on Charles Dickens’s portrayal of an election in the Pickwick Papers. It is hoped that the prize will be presented in January 2010 at Lambeth Palace.
THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION COMPETITION 2009
The prize in our undergraduate dissertation competition is to be awarded to Josephine Jay, from the University of York, for her dissertation entitled ‘A cry for attention: Gladstone and the 1857 Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act’. It is planned to present the award at the Annual Lecture being given later this month.
THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT: THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1820-32
The 1820-32 section of the History of Parliament will be published by Cambridge University Press in December. The seven volumes contain biographies of the 1367 Members of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1832, surveys of elections and politics in the 383 constituencies of Great Britain and Ireland over the same period and an introduction which analyses and sets them in context. The result of more than twenty years’ work in archives and libraries throughout Britain, Ireland and abroad, they constitute the most comprehensive survey of British and Irish politics during the period, and an unparalleled source of previously unpublished information on the personalities and politics of the period which saw the achievement of Reform.
Encompassing four Parliaments and general elections in 1820, 1826, 1830 and 1831, they cover the Queen Caroline affair, agricultural distress, the Whig campaign for economies and legal reforms, debates on financial and commercial policy, the emergence of liberal Toryism, colonial slavery, repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform. The period ends with the passage of the first Reform Act, a watershed in the representative history of Britain.
The special introductory price, for four months after publication, will be £425.
See http://www.cambridge.org for more details on how to obtain the set.
THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT ANNUAL LECTURE 2009: MR GLADSTONE AND PARLIAMENT
Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Ewart Gladstone, the sixth History of Parliament lecture will be delivered at 6pm on 18th November 2009 by Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research, on ' "A school of discipline"? Mr Gladstone and Parliament, 1833-94'. The lecture will take place in the Attlee Suite, in Portcullis House, Westminster. Admission is by free ticket only. If you wish to attend, please contact Jenny Johnson at jjohnson@histparl.ac.uk
THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
The House of Lords has now agreed that the History should begin work on the House of Lords in the period 1604-1660 following the completion of the current House of Commons, 1604-29 Section, anticipated in 2010. Further details of the History's plans will be posted here when they become available.