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Hansard is recruiting: new year, new career

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Hansard is recruiting: new year, new career

Hansard is looking for new parliamentary reporters. We’d like to hear from you, whether you’ve never thought of a job in Parliament or you’ve wanted to work here all your life. Read this post to find out more about the process.

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Hansard: Past to Present

Posted by: Portia Dadley, Posted on: 28 October 2019 - Categories: Analytics, Events, History of Hansard, Outreach
A reporters' notebook from the 1940s

Hansard event for UK Parliament Week—get your tickets now!

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Nudity, punch-ups and novelty ties: how Hansard deals with unusual occurrences 

Posted by: Saul Minaee, Posted on: 10 October 2019 - Categories: Historical content, Reporting
Member of Parliament Alex Chalk holds his mobile phone up to a microphone in the House of Commons

Hansard reporters usually just have to worry about getting the words right, but not everything that happens in the House of Commons is spoken.

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Five things I discovered on secondment to the civil service

Posted by: Will Opposs, Posted on: 30 July 2019 - Categories: Careers, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
Will delivering a powerpoint presentation

Parliamentary Reporter Will shares what he learnt during his five-month secondment to Civil Service Learning's Parliamentary Capability Team

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From Chicago to Letchworth via Westminster

Posted by: James Lawrenson, Posted on: 5 July 2019 - Categories: History of parliamentary reporting
Ebenezer Howard's diagram of a garden city layout

Sir Ebenezer Howard, father of the garden city movement, was inspired by the many debates he attended as a parliamentary reporter in the 19th century.

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Hansard: a marathon and a sprint

Posted by: Charlie Browne, Posted on: 18 June 2019 - Categories: Reporting, Workplace Culture
Two Hansard reporters in the Commons Chamber, sitting above the clock

Believe it or not, Hansard reporters are all-round athletes. This post explains why we need stamina, speed and teamwork to get our job done.

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Signs of change: making parliamentlive.tv accessible to a hearing-impaired audience

Posted by: Sally Freestone, Posted on: 8 May 2019 - Categories: Accessibility, Broadcasting, Collaboration culture, Language, Select Committees, Technology
Screenshot of subtitling on parliamentlive.tv

Sally Freestone, Deputy Director Parliamentary Broadcasting, explains how the Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit is working to make proceedings more accessible. 

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Gwnewch y pethau bychain

Posted by: Owain Wilkins, Posted on: 1 March 2019 - Categories: Language, Reporting
Owain, a Hansard Committee Sub-Editor and Welsh speaker

There are many little things that go on behind the scenes at Parliament that are vital to the smooth running of business, and this post focuses on how we at Hansard meet the demands of reporting the Welsh language.

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From Hansard with Love

Posted by: Joe Briggs, Posted on: 14 February 2019 - Categories: Careers, Reporting, Workplace Culture
Joe Briggs reading a copy of Hansard

When people think of Hansard reporters, they often think of the main Chamber, but there’s a whole team responsible for reporting Westminster Hall and the Committees of the House. Joe Briggs takes you undercover for a day in his world.

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Words that make me think about where I came from

Posted by: Laura Sangster, Posted on: 25 January 2019 - Categories: Language, Reporting
Palace of Westminster tile featuring Scottish symbols

Laura, a parliamentary reporter who grew up in Scotland, describes how listening to Scottish words and accents reminds her of home.

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Do Androids Dream of Select Committees?

Posted by: Saul Minaee, Posted on: 7 December 2018 - Categories: Reporting, Select Committees, Technology
Pepper the robot giving evidence to the Education Committee alongside two human witnesses

Can you tell the difference between a semi-humanoid robot and a standard-issue Select Committee witness? Read this post to find out, and to learn more about Hansard and Select Committees.

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