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UDS Archive

Welcome to the UDS archive system. We store all of our public debates here, alongside minutes and results. If you would like to use this data, or have any questions about it, please contact us.

Semester

Christmas Debate: This House would unionize the Elves.

Rapid Fire Debate!

This House believes Reform will win the next general election.

Panel on the Exploration of Oil

Ought Capital Punishments to be Abolished?

1842

Was King Charles I legally dethroned?

1842

Is a monorchichal or republican form of government the better?

1842

Was the conduct of Queen Elizabeth towards Queen Mary justifiable?

1842

Ought the Corn Laws to be Abolished?

1842

Are Ossians poems authentic?

1842

Is a state of celibacy or marriage the preferable?

1842

Has the Reform Bill had a beneficial or prejudicial tendency to the general interests of the country?

1842

Was Cardinal Beatons death justifiable?

1842

Is Utility the ground of Moral obligation?

1842

Ought the Catholic Emancipation bill to have been passed?

1842

Was Prince Charles claim to the British throne justifiable?

1842

Whether is Logic or Rhetoric the most persuasive mode of reasoning?

1842

Is Language of Human or Divine origin?

1842

Does love refine or debase the Moral feeling?

1842

Whether was Wallace or Bruce the greater Champion?

1842

Would it be conducive for the greater extension of knowledge to adopt the Bell system of teaching in parochial schools?

1842

Do Novels repay the time spent in reading them?

1842

Ought the Income Tax to have been imposed?

1842

Is there more pleasure in the pursuit or the possession of knowledge?

1866

Should ladies be allowed to graduate at Universities as M.A.?

1866

Do the reform demonstrations that have lately taken place indicate the true state of feeling in the nation?

1866

Ought education to be compulsory?

1866

Is beauty in the object or the mind?

1866

Is a man's character to a greater degree innate or acquired?

1866

Is early rising or late sitting the more favourable for study?

1866

Is wealth or extent of territory the true indication of national strength?

1866

Is it more difficult to attain a position of eminence now than it was a century ago?

1866

Ought the franchise to be extended?

1866

Has miscellaneous reading a prejudicial tendency on the mind?

1866

Ought Darwin to be encouraged in his speculations?

1866

Is the earth a globe or a plain?

1866

Ought the restrictions on the degree of B.A. to be abolished?

1866

Is British Philosophy tending towards Rationalism or Idealism?

1866

Has Bunyan or Milton displayed the greater [uncertain: force/power] of imagination?

1866

Is the principle of Total abstinence to be commended?

1866

Is the establishment of a Gymnasium in St Andrews desirable?

1866

Should there be a chair of elocution in St Andrews?

1866

Is reason confined to man?

1866

This House Supports Replacing the UK's Welfare State with UBI

This House Believes That the Internet is to Blame for the Male Loneliness Epidemic

Ought the Government Have the Right to Interfere in Education - Throwback Debate from 1866

This House Opposes the Rise of Tradwife Influencers

This House Regrets the Sanitisation of Children's Literature

This House Would Legalise Psychedelics

This House has No Confidence in HM Government

This House Regrets the Narrative of the Suffering Artist

This House Has No Confidence in His Majesty’s Government

This House Regrets the Influence of Religion on Education

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