As we come near to the end of the Women in Manx Politics project we have created an Open Data Archive, hosted on RADAR (the Oxford Brookes Institutional Repository). These are Open Data resources which are free to use for everyone (subject to the terms of the Creative Commons License), and which Brookes is committed to hosting indefinitely. Thank you to the Scholarly Communications Team at Oxford Brookes for all their support in creating this resource.
There are three Excel spreadsheets in the WMP Open Data Archive:
Appointed Members of the Legislative Council, 1919-2023. This spreadsheet contains the names, and gender, of appointed members of the Legislative Council, 1919-2023. This includes ex officio members – the Lieutenant-Governor/President; the Attorney General; and the Deemsters. Do you want to know when James Robertson Corrin joined the Council (1928), or left it (1955)? Or who the last Second Deemster to sit on the Council as Second Deemster was (George E Moore)? This is the dataset for you.
Elections to the Legislative Council, 1919-2023. This spreadsheet contains information on every vote in the House of Keys to elect an elected member to the Legislative Council between 1919 and 2023. Do you want to know how many rounds of voting it took to elect George Higgins in 1950 (three)? Or which appointed member failed to become an elected member when his appointed seat was removed (JB Bolton, 1970)? This is the dataset for you.
Keys General Election Data, 1919-2021. This spreadsheet contains constituency and candidate information for all General Elections to the House of Keys, 1919-2021. Do you want to know how many Qualtrough’s stood for election in Ramsey in 1919 (three)? Or how many candidates stood for election in Castletown in the four General Elections from 1919-1934 combined (one)? This is the dataset for you.
We collated these datasets in order to address research questions in the Women in Manx Politics project, but hope they will be useful more broadly. If you find these datasets useful at any point, we’d love to hear from you: please email pwedge@brookes.ac.uk
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