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History of Parliament Online

On Friday 4 November, as part of the wider annual Parliament Week, the new History of Parliament Online was launched. The project, a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the History of Parliament, makes available three and a half centuries of Parliamentary history, including more than 21,000 MP biographies and around 3,000 articles. The IHR is also a partner in a new JISC-funded project, one of 23 supported under its eContent programme. Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata (LIPARM) will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects.

For more information please visit www.historyofparliamentonline.org

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Jonathan Gardner

NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor, 2011/12

Professor Jonathan Gardner (School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington) is a marine biologist with extensive research expertise in the fields of Marine Protected Areas, biodiversity conservation and population genetics. Jonathan is the second NZ-UK Link Visiting Professor and will be based at the School for three months. He will give four lectures addressing the UK’s new Marine and Coastal Act, drawing on New Zealand’s own Marine Reserves Act and the more recent Protected Area Policy and Implementation Plan. The lectures will be at The Royal Society in London, Plymouth University, York University and finally at the Zoological Society of London and will cover a range of topics relating to marine conservation and protection. Full story.

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Caamaño in London: the Exile of a Latin American Revolutionary

Fred Halliday

In January 1966 Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, President of the Dominican Republic during the ‘Constitutionalist’ uprising of April-May 1965 and the subsequent US invasion, was exiled to London. Spending twenty months in the British capital as military ...