Featured item: 40 years of broadcasting from the House of Lords 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 ...

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An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America. Following the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, Parliament passed a series of Acts in 1774 ...

Jennie Lee (1904-1988) was born into a Fife mining community rooted in Scottish socialism. Lee had a meteoric rise within the Independent Labour Party and at the age of twenty-four won the Parliament ...

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Within 30 years of Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660, England was once again on the verge of civil war. In 1688 the country was invaded by a foreign army and its King fled, as the Crown ...

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Select committees work in both Houses. They check and report on areas ranging from the work of government departments to economic affairs. Select committees run inquiries on specific topics. The ...

Before 1834, women wanting to watch proceedings in the House of Commons had to do so via a ventilation shaft in the ceiling. Although this did provide a means of viewing debates for a small number of ...

Important transport schemes still come before Parliament as Hybrid Bills (bills with a public purpose but affecting some private interests), and are examined by a select committee. Recent examples ...

In June 1820 William Cobbett presented this petition to Parliament. In the petition he described himself as a farmer, explaining that he had purchased an estate in the county of Southampton in 1805 ...