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#OTD 1833 the Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent. New to the #HistParl blog, our Public Engagement Assistant Joe Baker has delved into the specifics of the Act, and the conditions that had to be met to achieve emancipation: thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/183…

Born #OnThisDay 1804 James Pilkington Liberal MP Blackburn 1847-65. In 1862 he was the most high-profile victim of the 'garotting panic' in London when he was attacked, robbed and ‘almost strangled to death’. This and other cases prompted the 1863 Security against Violence Act.

One of several Victorian MPs who inspired fictional characters, Albert Grant, who died #OnThisDay 1899, is thought to have been the model for the corrupt financier Augustus Melmotte in Trollope’s The Way We Live Now. Find out more about him in our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/mp-…

🤔Fancy reminiscing about Histories of Scottish Politics and thinking about where the field goes next? ✍️Hannah Speed UofG History writes for Scottish Historical Review Trust on #HSPconference 👇 tinyurl.com/ynukumpx Thanks also to the SHR for providing bursaries for PGR & ECR speakers 💙

We have a 19thC MP connection to Mary Shelley - she was a friend of the Wakefield MP Daniel Gaskell and made use of his parliamentary franking privileges. (See our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/mp-…)

Died #OnThisDay 1884 Sir Robert Richard Torrens, who was unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Cambridge in 1865 & 1866, & served as its MP from 1868-74. He had previously been a prominent politician in South Australia, serving briefly as premier in 1857: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/torr…

Born #OTD 1867, John Gretton (later Baron Gretton). Whilst sitting as an MP for South Derbyshire, Gretton won 2 Olympic Gold medals in Sailing at the Paris Olympics in 1900!

Born #OnThisDay 1784 William Hodgson Barrow, the oldest member of the Commons when he retired in 1874. He had represented Notts South since 1851. Disraeli described him as ‘a man of the people’. He was among the dozen Conservative MPs who supported women’s suffrage in 1867.

The well-travelled William Henry Hyett, born #OnThisDay 1795, was one of the first civilians to view the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo. He was Whig MP for Stroud, 1832-5, but was reluctant to obey the party whip. Find out more about him in our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/so-…

It's not just MPs who will be returning to work at Westminster today, but staff as well. On the TheVictorianCommons blog, Dr Kathryn Rix has looked into the staff who kept the Palace of Westminster running back in the 19th century... ow.ly/5qsT50FJf3j

It's our Twitter anniversary - we've spent 12 years sharing our research on 19th century elections, parliamentary life, MPs, constituencies and more. Find out about all those themes on our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com

#OnThisDay [3rd September] in 1846 the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, was founded. A short 🧵

Peter Rolt, who died #OnThisDay 1882, was Conservative MP for Greenwich, 1852-7, but was better known as the builder of Britain’s first ironclad warship, HMS Warrior, in 1860. Find out more about him in our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/mp-…

Happy twitter anniversary to TheVictorianCommons. One of my favourite of their blogs is their account of Edward Lucas as Peel's Irish under-secretary. I'm now sitting in Bedfordshire Archive reading Lucas' correspondence with the lord lieutenant, Earl de Grey. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/mp-…

Likewise, we recommend following the extremely knowledgeable The Georgian Lords !

Born #OnThisDay 1829 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, temperance campaigner and Liberal MP for Carlisle 1859-65, 1868-85, Cockermouth 1886-1900, 1906, Camborne 1903-6. He was, in his own words, ‘a fanatic, a faddist, and an extreme man’.

A review of our book 'Parliament Buildings: The Architecture of Politics in Europe' by Benedikt Wintgens, Commission for the History of Parliamentarianism and Political Parties, Berlin. The book is free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/parliamen… UCL Press Uta Staiger UCL European Institute

Born #OnThisDay 1801 Horatio Ross, MP Aberdeen 1831-2, Montrose 1832-5. A Reformer who later supported Peel (& sent him regular gifts of grouse). A pioneering photographer – MacKinnon collection National Library of Scotland has examples of his work: nls.uk/collections/ph… Self-portrait: V & A

There will be celebrations in the TheVictorianCommons to mark this great achievement from our senior research fellow Dr Martin Spychal! For a taster of his work, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/tag/boundary-c…

#OnThisDay 1841 Hansard recorded, ‘on the meeting of the Parliament this day, the parties had changed places, the Conservatives occupying the Ministerial, the Whigs the opposition benches’. Peel had replaced Melbourne as PM a week earlier. On Peel, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/sir…