Norman Shaw North is a Grade I listed building which originally provided administrative headquarters for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Designed by the architect Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) ...

reforming the office of Lord Chancellor so that it could be held by someone other than a Member of the Lords and transferring his judicial functions to the Lord Chief Justice establishing an ...

Parliament responds to change Britain's chief export industry was woollen textiles, though production processes were often small-scale and confined to workers' cottages. But the 18th century saw rapid ...

Page 1: This letter of 21 May 1683 by John Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments 1638-49, 1660-91) explains that certain papers were thought missing because “many Journalls & Acts were taken away” during ...

Following the Act of Union with Scotland in 1707 the jurisdiction of the House of Lords was extended to appeals from the Scottish courts. There were soon a large number of appeals from the ...

Representation of the People Act 1918 In 1918 the Representation of the People Act was passed which allowed women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification to vote. Although 8.5 million ...

Coal Governments still preferred seeking parliamentary consent to measures focusing on particular industries. The Coal Mines Act of 1930 was a response to miners' demands for action to revive the ...

Panoramic photograph of the Somme on the eve of battle, 1916 5 images Slideshow Letter from J P DuCane to Lloyd George on the first day of the Somme 6 images Slideshow Aerial photographs of the Somme ...

Salvaged and repaired, this account book for staff wages in the Serjeant at Arms' staff in the House of Commons contains entries right up to the day before the fire. This is one of the few remaining ...

In 1918 some women were given the vote as part of a wider expansion of the franchise. However restrictions including an age qualification of thirty years meant they still did not have the vote on ...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) was a lawyer, politician and the first leader of Pakistan. After spells studying and practising law in England he returned permanently to his homeland in the 1930s ...

This case study is the result of a partnership between the Parliamentary Archives, Parliamentary Outreach, Kent History & Library Centre and Marden History Group. It is part of the Connecting with ...