...difficult to discover more about Emily’s role. However, from local and family histories, newspapers, census returns and other records, it has been possible to build up a picture of her...
...to a nationwide research project to explore the DNA of historic parchments. The project is being run by the University of York and Trinity College Dublin, and involves a collaboration...
...the History of Parliament (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/) to construct new datasets on how Parliament passed estate Acts and who worked on this legislation. A current project, for example, is examining if there...
...Margaret stayed at the family home in Wales, he mostly held court in Surrey at a golf course property leased from newspaper proprietor George Riddell. It was here in February...
...lay, progressing from the terraces to the boardroom. Born into rural poverty in Ireland Hannon became a leading midlands industrialist then embarked on a career in politics stretching over five...
...irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. So who was Harry Furniss? He was...
...new Orders be enrolled on parchment. It seems likely that this instruction was not carried out before the dissolution nine months later, perhaps because a new clerk of the parliaments,...
...personal papers from some descendants of Sir Charles Barry, architect of the new Palace of Westminster. Pugin-Barry letters (BAR/31/1 Parliamentary Archives) Among the papers (above) were 22 autograph letters to...
...in Britain and abroad’. As the new decade begun Pitt’s rising public profile made him a target and he was front-page news after his office was subjected to an arson...
The First World War had an enormous impact on the lives of those who survived it and also upon their families. To mark Remembrance Day in November 2015, the Parliamentary...
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