MPs on the Subject of STEMM: What Can Oral History Tell Us?.
A growing collection of archived oral history interviews with former MPs offers historians new opportunities to study the influences that have directed MPs' routes into elected office and their behaviour in the house of commons. This article draws on evidence in the interviews to consider the extent...
| Publicado en: | Parliamentary History Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 331 - 350 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143548104&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143548104 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02642824 8N5 jtl: Parliamentary History issn: 02642824 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2020 vid: 39 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 143548104 10.1111/1750-0206.12501 ppf: 331 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 216KB tig: atl: MPs on the Subject of STEMM: What Can Oral History Tell Us?. aug: au: Ledgerwood, Emmeline affil: University of Leicester and The British Library su: Oral history STEM education Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Historical materialism Westminster (London, England) sug: subj: Westminster (London, England) Oral history STEM education Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Historical materialism keyword: committee engineering mathematics medicine MPs occupation oral history science technology ab: A growing collection of archived oral history interviews with former MPs offers historians new opportunities to study the influences that have directed MPs' routes into elected office and their behaviour in the house of commons. This article draws on evidence in the interviews to consider the extent to which an MP's background in science, technology, engineering, maths, and medicine (so‐called STEMM subjects) has contributed to his or her activity as a parliamentarian. When concerns are raised about the House's capacity to effectively debate and scrutinise legislation concerning STEMM matters, those concerns are often accompanied by calls for more MPs with a STEMM background. Listening to these oral history interviews to hear what individual MPs say about their connections with STEMM – whether before, during, or after their time in the Commons – provides an insight into the relevance of having a STEMM background as an MP and offers explanations as to why MPs with a STEMM background are in a minority in the House. As such, this examination of historical material contributes to the ongoing debate about the role of STEMM experts in parliament while demonstrating the value of consulting archived oral history interviews when researching 20th‐century parliamentary history. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Parliamentary History is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Parliamentary History holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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