The History of Parliament’s 9th annual lecture will take place on the evening of Wednesday, 6th November at Portcullis House, Westminster. Baroness Patricia Hollis will lecture on ‘The Hopes of the Suffragettes: were they realised?’ We are delighted that our lecture this year will be part of the programme for Parliament Week 2013, an initiative coordinated by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords that looks at the people, places and events that support democracy in the UK. This year’s focus is on ‘Women in Democracy’. To find out more, visit www.parliamentweek.org.

The lecture is free and open to the public but you will need a ticket to do so. If you would like to attend this lecture, please Contact Us or email website@histparl.ac.uk.

The convenors of the ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research have also announced this term’s programme. The seminars take place on Tuesday evenings, at 5.15 in Room G21A, Senate House, South block, Ground floor. The first seminar will be on Tuesday, 8th October and will be given by Johannes Helmrath, Jörg Feuchter and Anna-Maria Blank (Humboldt University, Berlin and Konstanz University) on ‘Parliamentary oratory and images: a new approach to the study of late medieval and early modern political culture’. For the full programme, see the IHR website.