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Looking towards Super Tuesday
by Dafydd Townley The American election campaign takes its first major step towards selecting the final candidates for the two major parties next Tuesday. Super Tuesday, as it has become known, is the day on which the largest number of… Continue reading
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Nancy Astor: Art in Parliament
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Jacqui Turner’s work for Parliament on the installation of the Nancy Astor bust, in association with Vote100, is completed. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, was elected to Parliament on 15 November 1919. She took her… Continue reading
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Who’s Who: The 2016 Democrat and Republican presidential candidates
by Darius Wainwright February 2016 marked the beginning of the Democrat and Republican primaries, where preliminary elections are held to decide who should run for office. In the United States, state level primaries are held from now until June, with… Continue reading
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Congress to Campus, 29th February 2016: Programme
The Department of History will be hosting ‘Congress to Campus’ event on Monday 29th February 2016. Congress to Campus is an initiative to bring US Congressmen to the UK, which is supported by the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American… Continue reading
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Romance the Medieval Way: St Valentine’s Day Special
by Dr Ruth Salter St Valentine and the (possible) origins of Valentine’s Day Two St Valentines are listed in the Roman Martyrology for February 14th: one was a martyred Roman priest who had supposedly been killed on the Flaminian Way… Continue reading
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