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David Shiels
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Interests in political history, biography, Parliaments, home affairs, British-Irish relations.
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I was asked "I just wanted to understand from your perspective whether the Overton window has moved and whether those aspects are driving that in any way" at the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee last week
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December 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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At the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee at about 1035am this morning. Witnesses are Alan Manning and myself on Citizenship & Integration

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25 November 2025 - Settlement, Citizenship and Integration - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
10:30 - Room 2, Palace of Westminster
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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Our @sundersays.bsky.social gave evidence this morning to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Settlement, Citizenship and Integration - watch here:
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Justice and Home Affairs Committee
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November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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In #HouseOfLords committees this week:

The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee published its report on prisons, calling for reducing reoffending to be the core purpose of the prison system.

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Prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose, says Lords committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee today publishes its report Better prisons: less crime. The report examines the purpose, leadership, and oversight of prisons in England and Wales, as well as loo...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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My book on Britain and Ireland from the 1920s to the early 1970s is now available to pre-order (sure, given the price, very likely for an institutional library - but hey, flag it up).

Trade, tariffs, and sovereignty - so very current. Also marriage and migration.

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Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of con...
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February 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Happy Valentine! To celebrate, this week we'll be showing you some of the lovely letters sent from Clementine Churchill (the Kat) to Winston (the Pug) during their long and happy marriage, starting with this note from the time of their engagement in 1908 (ref CSCT 1/1/13).
Love letter with a picture of a heart, reading reading 'My dearest One, I love you with all of my heart and trust you absolutely. Do not analyse but sleep soundly. I sent you all my love – Clementine. This [a heart with the word Winston in the middle] is a little picture of my heart to show what it contains. August 1908.'
February 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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On this day, 50 years ago, Margaret Thatcher became the first female leader of the Conservative Party.

Here at the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Margaret Thatcher, which contain over 1 million documents in nearly 3,000 boxes.

📷 THCR AS 3/10, © Graham Wiltshire FRPS
Margaret Thatcher, stood in front of a blue curtain, surrounded by several microphones at a press conference at the Conservative party headquarters on 11th February 1975.
February 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM