Debbie Kilroy

About The Author

DEBBIE KILROY is a writer and historian. Having read history at the University of Birmingham as an undergraduate, where she won the Kenrick Prize, she founded the award-winning ‘Get History’ platform in 2014 with the aim of bringing accessible yet high quality history-telling and debate to a wide audience. Since then, she has completed a Masters in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford, receiving a distinction and the Kellogg College Community Engagement and Impact Award. She has also worked with Histories of the Unexpected and Inside History, with her article for Parliaments, Estates and Representation winning the international ICHRPI Emile Lousse prize for the best political article by an up-and-coming historian.

Books by Debbie Kilroy

Members Behaving Badly

A History of Britain in 52 Parliamentary Rogues

By Debbie Kilroy

Over the centuries, the House of Commons has been full of MPs standing up against tyranny; remarkable people doing remarkable things for the good of all. Yet there have been just as many cheats and liars who have played games, played the markets and played the people who put trust in them. The...

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