...and societal attitudes to disability, family life and sex, one of the UKDHM themes for 2021. UKDM runs from November to December and aims to celebrate the achievements, challenge disablism...
...collections here at the Parliamentary Archives, read on to learn about the history of British Summer Time, and the way it impacts the Great Clock twice a year. Greenwich Mean...
...Slave Trade, 1807, Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PU/1/1807/47G3s1n60 The full text of this debate can be read in Hansard online, available here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1805-02-28/debates/61dfbdee-15bd-4a1c-a723-5c765f31e9ba/SlaveTrade References: https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Scientific-classifications-of-race https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-slavery/parliament-and-the-british-slave-trade/ https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brinch/brinch.html https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/rights/abolition.htm https://www.oxforddnb.com/ https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/slavetrade/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/...
...several objects in the collection that connect to Parliament during wartime. During World War Two, the Palace of Westminster had its own serving home guard, which had duties including fire-watching,...
...D10809Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery, London A Royal Marriage King George IV after Sir Thomas Lawrence circa 1815 NPG 2503Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery, London On...
...Here’s the man, the myth, the minor Parliamentarian. Lord Byron, by Richard Westall, oil on canvas, 1813, NPG 4243Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery Representation of the court...
...including the building of Victoria Tower as purpose-built archive for the records. Sir Charles Barry by John Prescott Knight oil on canvas, circa 1851 NPG 1272 © National Portrait...
...organisations, all with a similar purpose. These four organisations were: The National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, The British National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, The...
Sir David Low by Howard Coster print, 1935 NPG x1993Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery Twenty years ago, this summer, the great and good of Britain’s cartooning community gathered...
There now hangs a print of the rolls of Acts of Parliament – inspired by the Act Room – above the large research table in the reading room of the...
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