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General election 2015: an electoral shock?
In the final instalment of our Election 2015 special, Dr Matt Broad looks at the shocking result! So that’s it. The election is over. The votes have been cast. The final results are in. And who would… Continue reading
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Elections and Political Change in Britain, 1832-1945
by Robert Collins As part of our Period in Modern History module, Elections and Political change in Britain, 1832-1945 a trip to Special Collections at the Museum of English Rural Life was organised by Dr Jason Parry. The aim of… Continue reading
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General election 2015: who and how many will vote?
After what seems like an eternity, the end of the election campaign is finally in sight. The last of the leaders’ debates – a special Question Time in which David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg sought to defend their… Continue reading
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“On the Edge”
By Harriet Mahood For the past two years, post-graduate researchers in the GCMS (Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies) have organised conferences based on a central theme connected to their doctoral work. This year, I decided to take on the role… Continue reading
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General election 2015: Britain and the European Union – are there alternatives?
By Dr Matt Broad A couple of weeks ago, I bemoaned the lack of discussion about foreign policy in the general election campaign. On that occasion I wrote that none of the main parties had ‘dared to mention foreign… Continue reading
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General Election 2015: manifestos – good politics or whistling in the wind?
In the fourth instalment of our General Election 2015 special feature, Dr Broad looks at political manifestos. Elections are strange affairs. For all the uncertainty inherent in a campaign the party machine is a highly structured… Continue reading
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General election 2015: where is the foreign policy?
In the third instalment of our 2015 election special, Dr Matt Broad discusses foreign policy. UKIP defections, Labour surge, leaked memos, non-doms, nuclear bombs, paid volunteering, police numbers, fiscal autonomy, fruit pickers and Joey Essex (again) – this… Continue reading
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2015: a case of déjà vu?
In the second instalment of our 2015 election special, Dr Matt Broad reviews the first week of the campaign and offers a historical prospective on the Leaders Debate. Politics is a fickle business. Labour started the week… Continue reading
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Inventing the Woman Question, and Giving Women a History of Their Own (not in the 19th century, but the 15th )
By Dr Anne Lawrence If you think that the ‘Woman Question’ was a Victorian invention you are technically correct, but the ‘Women Debate’ was launched in fifteenth-century Paris by a celebrated scholar, author and historian – who was also a… Continue reading
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2015 Election
Welcome to our featured blog series on the 2015 Election Dr Matt Broad provides a weekly analysis of one of the most exciting campaigns in British history On Thursday, 7 May the people of Britain go to the polls… Continue reading
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