...conflict came through debates and statements to the House rather than through media and newspapers, like it would be today. Resources House of Commons Saturday sitting debate https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1982/apr/03/falkland-islands House of...
...night of the debut of BBC Two, due to power cuts, the only programme able to broadcast was the news from Alexandra Palace. The studios produced BBC news and other...
...was silenced in our blog, The New Year Chimes of Big Ben. New Years Eve Fireworks in Westminster, 2017-18, Parliamentary Archives, PIC/D/7/5 We hope you’ve enjoyed unwrapping the 12...
...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)...
...1908 Komura Jutaro and His Age Obituary of Prince Chichibu by William Teeling, The Times, 13 Jan 1953 Obituary of William Teeling, The Times, 28 Oct 1975 Japan-Britain Ties: Emperor...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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