...the monarch in politics and Parliament. The Trial of Queen Caroline represented an opportunity for satirists, reformers and political commentators to address the political and constitutional debate through art, resulting...
...hidden politics found in music hall and pantomime, but Redford maintained a resolute defence. The short shrift of his answers was akin to ‘pleading the fifth’ as this example highlights;...
...totally on board with Parliament’s established etiquette this rulebreaker would do it in her own indomitable way for over four forthright decades. In this blog, Richard Ward, Assistant Archives Officer,...
...a successful Birmingham businessman, who distinguished himself in local, Conservative, politics (for which he was knighted in 1892) before entering Parliament in 1895 as MP for Birmingham East, which he...
...the community to take the reserved seat. This change emphasised the importance of individuals opinions outside of community politics. However, communal representation was important to some minority communities as it...
...targets to lampoon was Lord Randolph Churchill who he mockingly dubbed ‘Our Infant Hercules’. Since Disraeli’s premiership, the Conservatives had fallen by the wayside as Gladstone’s Liberals ruled the Westminster...
...strength of the woollen and silk industries. The largest surviving petition for the surveyed period between 1660 and 1784, of eighteen thousand rural Welsh inhabitants in 1689, also contains the...
