House of Lords

As Elianor James, EJ published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity.

In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter.

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson , CM began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on...

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel.

The Rev. James Curtin , the missionary who had baptised MP , testified to a House of Lords committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua.

The year after being made a CBE, RR was invited to sit in the House of Lords as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh .

MT issued another fighting work at Southampton: a single-sheet Circular sent to the Lords , previous to the Second Reading of the Bill for Ameliorating the Fate of Climbing Boys.

In a 1992 interview, MW stated that she used to be a Republican, but that in middle age she is becoming less radical, with a larger share of royalist sympathies. She noted that there is...

Viscountess Rhondda petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

The Committee of Privileges ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

The parliamentary Committee of Privileges , under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead , reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

After receiving her title, MHVR was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords . When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into...

A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords : they included Mary Pendarves (later MD ).