This blog was written by Ugbana Oyet, Serjeant at Arms in the House of Commons. Mr Oyet was appointed in October 2019. Prior to this he was Parliament’s Principal Electrical Engineer and Programme Director for the Engineering Infrastructure and Resilience …
This blog was written by Catherine Ross. Catherine Ross is the Founder and Director of the Museumand, National Caribbean Heritage Museum – the first museum in the UK to celebrate Caribbean heritage, culture and social history. She emigrated to the …
This blog was written by Richard Ward, Assistant Archives Officer. On the afternoon of 25th February 2008 an air of sadness permeated around the House of Lords Chamber after the death of Baroness Darcy de Knayth was announced. Fittingly prior …
This blog post is the third in a series on the Queen Caroline Affair to mark its bicentenary. For an outline of the full story of the Affair, see this introductory blog post and this video. In this blog post, Dr Katie Carpenter …
This blog was written by Katherine Emery, Assistant Archives Officer. The Parliamentary Archives holds many varied collections. This includes all Acts of Parliament since 1497, the journals for both the House of Lords and House of Commons as well as …
This blog post is the second in a series on The Queen Caroline Affair to mark its bicentenary. In this post, Dr Katie Carpenter explains what a Bill of Pains and Penalties is, and why it was a last resort …
This blog was written by Richard Ward, Assistant Archives Officer. Continuing our series of blogs on disability history, this is the life and times of Britain’s first blind MP. An inspiring story of determination, love and liberalism. It was a …
This blog was written by Verity Jones, Archives Assistant (Graduate Trainee). For the third blog in our Jargon Buster series, we’re looking at two different types of records which are often confused – Hansard and Journals. Both give detailed accounts …
This blog article was written by Dr Katie Carpenter from the University of the Highlands and Islands. The summer of 2020 marks 200 years since ‘The Queen Caroline Affair’. This unprecedented episode in British history saw Queen Caroline, the estranged …
This blog was written by Verity Jones, Assistant Archivist (Trainee). The Palace of Westminster is full of quirks, and its secrets are still being discovered – did you hear about the secret doorway recently found near Westminster Hall? It is …
