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Beer, bribes, brawling: an accurate picture of 19th century elections?
Hansom Hall, Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 6QL
Monday 7 Oct 2024
7:30pmMembers free (individual membership for whole season £35; for details and to join see website)
Non-members £7, student £3
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Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society
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Beer, bribes, brawling: an accurate picture of 19th century elections?
The Presidential Lecture of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, to be given by Mr Nigel Siesage JP MA.
The mid-nineteenth century is commonly regarded as an age of reform, not least in electoral practice and the extension of voting rights - in contrast to the corruption of the eighteenth century famously depicted in Hogarth's cartoons. Drawing on the literature and art of the period, as well as historical sources, the lecture will examine the extent to which electoral reform actually changed electoral practice and the various forces influencing electors; and will present some of the more colourful aspects and characters involved in Victorian electioneering.
Mr Siesage is a retired senior administrator at the University of Leicester. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and Lincoln College Oxford, where he read Modern History. He has held several positions at Leicester, including as the University's first Director of External Relations. He was instrumental, with academic colleagues, in developing the bid to establish the National Space Centre in Leicester, successfully advocating its adoption by the Millennium Commission.
He was head of the administration of the University's Medical School and related academic departments, and has been chair of the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), which is now used in admissions by all the UK's medical schools and many overseas.
The mid-nineteenth century is commonly regarded as an age of reform, not least in electoral practice and the extension of voting rights - in contrast to the corruption of the eighteenth century famously depicted in Hogarth's cartoons. Drawing on the literature and art of the period, as well as historical sources, the lecture will examine the extent to which electoral reform actually changed electoral practice and the various forces influencing electors; and will present some of the more colourful aspects and characters involved in Victorian electioneering.
Mr Siesage is a retired senior administrator at the University of Leicester. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and Lincoln College Oxford, where he read Modern History. He has held several positions at Leicester, including as the University's first Director of External Relations. He was instrumental, with academic colleagues, in developing the bid to establish the National Space Centre in Leicester, successfully advocating its adoption by the Millennium Commission.
He was head of the administration of the University's Medical School and related academic departments, and has been chair of the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), which is now used in admissions by all the UK's medical schools and many overseas.
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