...Clock Tower (Detail), The Illustrated London News, by Illustrated London News, © Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 6141 Acton Smee Ayrton was a Liberal Party politician, MP for Tower Hamlets (1853-1874)...
...Guiana (now Guyana) in 1922. When Pathe News profiled a superb individual performance by Learie against England at Lords in 1928 they dubbed him ‘The Coloured Catapult’. On the same...
...its tenets for equality were welcomed by Brockway. To his fellow peers he stressed the need for more education so, ‘races can live together, with a new ethic that all...
...that the Lord Chamberlain’s Office had lived to censor another day. Review: So, freedom of theatrical expression remained in limbo for the time being. The following decades saw two World...
...view the original House of Commons chamber which was destroyed in 1941, it is not the same chamber as we see today! Benjamin Stone was active before the tumultuous world...
...has changed its location several times, and in the suffragette era, it was in the Norman Shaw buildings on the Embankment, which today form part of the Parliamentary estate. So...
...an end, times were changing within the Upper House. Reforms brought in by the new Labour Government meant the time was up for many hereditary peers. But Baroness Darcy had...
...events also allowed Furniss to publicly display his gift for mimicry. By the 1890's relations with Punch had greatly deteriorated over copyright issues so he decided to start a new...
...Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK), the Association grew in its first 30 years to encompass over 20 parliaments and legislatures. Today more than 165 legislatures are connected...
...family, she was responsible for security and access in the House of Lords during all non-sitting times, signified by her control of the keys to the chamber. She also had...
