Local History Section Spring Symposium 1986

Parliamentary elections in the county from medieval times up to 1945

Date: April
Venue: Department  of Adult  Education  in  the  University  of Southampton

Progamme

The speakers were:

• Miss Dr Michael Hicks on the origins and evolution of Parliament
• Dr Andrew Coleby on Hampshire elections between 1660 and 1690
• Mrs Barbara Carpenter Turner on the Winchester election of 1880
• Mrs Sarah Bussy on the Labour landslide in Winchester in 1945
• Dr Stuart Drummond who drew the symposium to a close.

This year for the first time a 'workshop' session was also included. Miss Philippa White first discussed and illustrated the wealth of archival material, held by the Hampshire Record Office, which is related to elections. This was followed by a study of copies of the relevant archives by those attending. The innovation proved to be most successful and popular.