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New website: History of Parliament (UK)

"The History of Parliament is a research project creating a comprehensive account of the parliamentary politics in England, then Britain, from their origins in the thirteenth century. Unparalleled in the comprehensiveness of its treatment, the History is generally regarded as one of the most ambitious, authoritative and well-researched projects in British history.

It consists of detailed studies of elections and electoral politics in each constituency, and of closely researched accounts of the lives of everyone who was elected to Parliament in the period, together with surveys drawing out the themes and discoveries of the research and adding information on the operation of Parliament as an institution."

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
 

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SLQ podcast: Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland rebel

Listen to historian Dr Jeff Rickertt as he delves into the turbulent world of colonial labour politics to explain the making of Ernie Lane as one of the nation’s most resolute rebels.

Podcast:http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/out_of_the_port

Recorded at the State Library of Queensland on 20 July 2011.

Duration: 57 minutes

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Talk @ SLQ: Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland Rebel

In the pioneering years of the Queensland labour movement, Ernest Henry Lane was one of the most fiery firebrands of them all. Yet he was shipped to Brisbane in 1884 as a model immigrant, an industrious young man who carried the convictions of a childhood steeped in loyalty to Queen and empire. So what went wrong? In this talk, John Oxley Library Fellow Dr Jeff Rickertt delves into the turbulent world of colonial labour politics to explain the making of Ernie Lane as one of the nation’s most resolute rebels.

Dr Rickertt is a Brisbane historian with an abiding interest in the State’s rebels and radicals. He was a contributor to and assistant editor of Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History and is co-editor of the Queensland Journal of Labour History. As the 2010 John Oxley Library Fellow, a Queensland Library Foundation initiative, Dr Rickertt is working on a political biography of Ernest Henry Lane.

When: Wednesday 20 July - 12:30pm
Venue: State Library of Queensland, slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Cost: Free
No bookings required.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/calevents/general/talks/port/rickertt

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