Missed an event?

The Hansard Society hosts many great events with a diverse range of excellent speakers. For example, the 2008 annual PSA/Hansard Society lecture given by the Rt Hon Clare Short MP. The debates are always interesting, vigorous and often with controversial moments!

Click here to listen to Making Politics fit for Purpose the 2008 annual PSA/Hansard Society Lecture given by the Rt Hon Clare Short MP and to view the photographs.

Click here to listen to No Politics Please...We're Women! and to download the briefing and write up.

Click here to listen to People Like Us: Is British society fairly reflected in Parliament? and view the photographs.

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Professor Sir Bernard Crick

It was with great sadness that we heard of the death of Professor Sir Bernard Crick.

Sir Bernard made an enormous contribution to the quality of political education that young people in the UK receive. His 1998 report: Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools was the driving force behind the introduction of Citizenship Education in Schools and he has been a key advocate for greater public engagement, especially from young people, his entire life.

Sir Bernard's contribution to the health of the UK's democracy through his writings and advocacy was enormous and he will be sadly missed. Indeed, Sir Bernard made an enormous contribution to the health of the Hansard Society when in 1973 Sir Bernard, then Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College London, persuaded the College to provide offices for the Society at a very modest rent. He also helped secure financial backing, and had a major hand in initiating new research projects.

Professor Sir Bernard Crick is on the Hansard Society Democracy Award shortlist for the individual or organisation which has advanced understanding of and engagement in parliamentary democracy, awarded at the Channel 4 Political Awards.