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Participants

Meg Russell
Director of the Constitution Unit & Prof of British and Comparative Politics, UCL
Programme Details
Weds 21st October: Keynote Lecture: The Future of Parliamentary Sovereignty
Weds 28th October: Debate 1
Weds 4th November: Debate 2
Weds 11th November: Debate 3 WATCH PANELLIST PROPOSITION VIDEOS
Weds 18th November: Final Debate
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Watch Prof Michael Gordon's Keynote Lecture to open the Oxford Putney Debates 2020


Britain's constitutional origins
What were the Putney Debates?
Discover how a group of liberal radicals challenged the existing order through an extraordinary series of debates that paved the way for many of the civil liberties we value today.
Thomas Rainsborough
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