By Dr Mari Takayanagi, Senior Archivist Have you seen Made in Dagenham? This film (and stage musical!) tells the story of the women sewing machinists at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham, who went on strike in a dispute …
Guest post by Portia Dadley, House of Commons Hansard Writing Team. Hansard is a no-fail operation: come rain or shine, reports of debates in the Chamber and Committees are always published. In the second world war, that commitment was tested to …
A guest post by Bruce Ryder, an independent researcher working on a biography of Bishop Thomas Ken. J. C. Sainty, in his paper The Parliament Office in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1977), identifies Thomas Ken as one of the …
A guest post by Stephen Gadd, PhD candidate at Winchester University I am examining the legislative and regulatory changes of the sixteenth century which laid the foundations in England and Wales for later transport development, including river navigation, road and …
In January this year we were very happy to welcome Olivia Colman and the Who Do You Think You Are? Team to the Parliamentary Archives. They were in search of records about Olivia Colman’s ancestors and they found the information …
A guest post by Georgina Estill... I’m Georgina Estill, a third year Graphic design student at WSA. I undertook the external Parliamentary archives brief, in which we were challenged to represent the historic archival information through contemporary visual language whilst …
This blog was written by Richard Ward, Assistant Archives Officer. Over the next few months, if you find yourself visiting the Palace of Westminster and you're in the vicinity of the Norman Porch, take a moment to have a …
109 years ago, today two suffragettes, Miss Solomon and Miss McLellan, posted themselves to 10 Downing Street, in an effort to speak to the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith. This appears to have motivated Asquith’s private secretary, Mr Nash to write …
I live in Islington in a terrace of houses built by a dairyman called Samuel Pullen. Samuel Pullen built the terrace in the late 1760s and it was completed and partially occupied by 1770. When Pullen died in 1775, he …
Guest post by Chloe Bowerbank Around Easter this year I had the great fortune of securing a paid internship with Royal Holloway and the Citizens 800 Project, which enabled me to work in Parliament and with the Vote 100 Exhibition …
