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The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914 (2020)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2021). The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914. Historical Journal, 64(2), 332-356. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000035

Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the place of petitioning within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British political culture. While critical of their Victorian predecessors’ reliance on petit... Read More about The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914.

Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918 (2020)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2020). Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 248(1), 123-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz061

This article analyses nearly one million petitions received by the House of Commons to reveal a culture of petitioning that recast the political culture of modern Britain and Ireland. It argues, first, that petitions provided a much more regular and... Read More about Petitions, Parliament and Political Culture: Petitioning the House of Commons, 1780-1918.