{"id":5563,"date":"2024-06-14T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:44","slug":"a-history-of-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2024\/06\/14\/a-history-of-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of general elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lse.ac.uk%2Flibrary%2Fwhats-on%2Fexhibitions%2Fthe-power-to-vote&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C9650344e86f342318d0f08dc8c480f13%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638539488353862584%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=MzOR7P7Bd90IDbxOtE9OG%2B4QGQnpSiqowk6GGH0ztTM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">A history of General Elections online exhibition<\/a><\/u><\/strong> based on LSE Library archives. <br>It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards. It highlights the founding of the Conservative and Labour parties, women\u2019s suffrage and electoral reforms. Contributions are written by specialist curators and there is an accompanying resource list to guide further research in the archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Falissresearch.blogspot.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C9650344e86f342318d0f08dc8c480f13%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638539488353875798%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GKMLKIIVLyMq9xudfRCM4SlKggox6mlbUz%2FgRsN1utE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">For current elections see this site which has<\/a>\u00a0links to party manifestos, Interest groups manifestos, polls and TV debates (via Box of Broadcasts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A history of General Elections online exhibition based on LSE Library archives. It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards. It highlights the founding of the Conservative and Labour parties, women\u2019s suffrage and electoral reforms. Contributions are written by specialist curators and there is an accompanying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716,13],"tags":[41,115,331,93],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-suffrage","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}