Tag: History of government Records and researchPolitical pioneers: The first 20 women in CabinetWednesday 22 March 2023Find out more about the first 20 female Cabinet ministers and their journeys into government....Records and researchWomen, Parliament and Political SpaceMonday 21 November 2022How did women’s admission to the House of Commons impact the masculine structure of...Records and researchLiving with leprosy in late medieval EnglandThursday 5 December 2019Leprosy – now known as Hansen’s disease in order to remove the stigma with...Records and researchMedieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383Thursday 28 November 2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people...Records and researchA Cold War visitor in London: Marshal Tito of YugoslaviaThursday 15 March 2018Sixty-five years ago, on the afternoon of 16 March 1953, Britain welcomed an unlikely visitor...Records and researchScottish charters and the emergence of governmentTuesday 31 January 2017Tracing the emergence of royal government in medieval Scotland is a difficult task: the...Records and researchThe bureaucats at the heart of governmentTuesday 7 June 2016Since the 1800s there has been a group of government employees given free range...