Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century - A Workshop

This workshop is part of the Leverhulme-funded project "Re-thinking petitions, parliament and people in the long nineteenth century" headed by Richard Huzzey and Henry Miller of Durham University. Petitions were a key method of ordinary (and not so ordinary!) people communicating with Parliament in this period but are an under-utilised resource. This workshop aims to discuss the potential of using parliamentary petitions for research on a wide range of topics associated with Britain, her Empire and foreign affairs; the practical and methodological problems they pose; and examples of existing research which makes use of petitions.

Timetable

10.30-11: Registration/Coffee

11-1: Presentations

Richard Huzzey and Henry Miller (Durham): Introducing the Rethinking Petitions project

Mark Philp (Warwick)

Mari Takayanagi (Senior Archivist, Parliamentary Archives): Petitions and the UK Parliament

Mark Knights (Warwick)

Sarah Richardson (Warwick): Women and petitioning

1-2: Lunch

2-4: PhD Research and Feedback

PhD students discuss their research and connections with petitioning and receive feedback from workshop participants