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History of Parliament Staff
Dr Kathryn Rix
Assistant Editor, 1832-1945
Research
Having arrived at the History of Parliament in January 2009, I am currently working on biographies and constituency studies for the 1832-1868 period.
My particular research interests are the development of party organisation, the interaction between the local and national dimensions of electoral politics, changes in electoral culture, and electoral corruption. I am preparing a monograph for publication in the Royal Historical Society’s Studies in History series, entitled ‘Politics and professionalisation: the party agent and electoral culture in England, 1880-1910’.
Publications
My publications include: ‘“The elimination of corrupt practices in British elections”? Reassessing the impact of the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act’, English Historical Review, CXXIII (2008), 65-97; ‘Hidden workers of the party. The professional Liberal agents, 1885-1910’, Journal of Liberal History, 52 (2006), 4-13; ‘“Go out into the highways and the hedges”: the diary of Michael Sykes, Conservative political lecturer, 1895 and 1907-8’, Parliamentary History, 20:2 (2001), 209-31.