STAFFDirector
Administrative Staff
Research Staff
- Dr Beverly Adams
- Dr Stephen Ball
- Dr Andrew Barclay
- Dr Linda Clark
- Dr Ben Coates
- Dr Robin Eagles
- Dr Stephen Farrell
- Dr David Fisher
- Dr David Grummitt
- Dr Stuart Handley
- Mr Simon Healy
- Dr Paul Hunneyball
- Dr Hannes Kleineke
- Dr Vivienne Larminie
- Dr Patrick Little
- Dr Charles Littleton
- Dr Henry Miller
- Dr Charles Moreton
- Dr James Owen
- Dr Ruth Paley
- Dr Simon Payling
- Dr Kathryn Rix
- Dr Stephen Roberts
- Dr Philip Salmon
- Dr David Scott
- Dr Rosemary Sgroi
- Dr Andrew Thrush
History of Parliament Staff
Dr Philip Salmon
Programme Editor, 1820-1832
Research
• The development of proto-democratic institutions (national, local and colonial) in Britain, Ireland and Australia, c.1800-1914; their practical workings and impact on the emergence of distinctive political identities; the related ideas, literature and historiography of suffrage reform movements.
• The role of the MP and delegate in Victorian politics; the cult of the public figure and the changing practices and functions of popular representation.
• IT applications in history: quantification and digitisation; computer-based psephology; nominal record linkage; the impact of the web on political history.
Publications
Co-editor, Partisan politics, principle and reform in parliament and the constituencies, 1689-1880, (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
Electoral reform at work: local politics and national parties, 1832-1841, (Royal Historical Society, 2002)
Articles:
‘The English Reform Legislation, 1831-32’, in The House of Commons, 1820-32, ed. D. Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2009), vol. 1, pp. 374-412
‘The House of Commons, 1801-1911’, in A Short History of Parliament, ed. C. Jones (Boydell & Brewer, 2009), 248-69
‘”Reform should begin at home”: English municipal and parliamentary reform, 1818-32’ in Partisan politics, principle and reform in parliament and the constituencies, 1689-1880, ed. C. Jones, P. Salmon and R. Davis, (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 93-113
Editor, ‘England’s “other” ballot question: the unnoticed political revolution of 1835’, in Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform, 139-163
‘John A. Phillips as a historian’, in Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform, pp. xxii-xxx
‘An emancipation election, Louth 1826’, History Today, lv (June 2005), p.59
‘Joseph Parkes’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, xlii (2004), pp. 777-780
‘Electoral reform and the political modernization of England’, Parliaments, Estates, and Representation, xxiii (2003), pp. 49-67
‘Local politics and partisanship: the electoral impact of municipal reform, 1835’, Parliamentary History, xix (2000), pp. 357-376