The House of Commons Speaker is a significant role within parliament that began in the 14th century and carries on to modern day. Katherine Emery, Assistant Archives Officer, will examine how the responsibilities of the Speaker have changed over time. …
Let’s go back to the summer of 1843 when the Palace of Westminster staged a Prize Cartoon Competition. The brainchild of the Fine Arts Commission that everyone was talking about. Using original prints from our collections Richard Ward, Assistant Archives …
Back in 2020 England’s most famous cricketer Ian Botham in receiving a life peerage was introduced to the House of Lords. I’d like to think at a later juncture someone from the administration divulged to him a potted history of …
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery Twenty years ago, this summer, the great and good of Britain’s cartooning community gathered in Westminster Hall for the grand opening of a new Parliament exhibition titled Low: The 20th Century’s Greatest Cartoonist. …
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