House of Lords

Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character...

WMCN had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords , organized a petition...

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 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...

AJV 's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane...

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.

According to critic Susan Grogan , the book defies generic classification, blending elements of the political tract, the novel, and the statistical enquiry into social conditions.Promenades details FT 's various trips to England...

It appears from the only two extant library listings of this tract or broadside (in the New York Public Library and the University of Texas at Austin ) that the title was added in Trench's...

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.

This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...

Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.

She, it appears, had petitioned first, alleging his impotence and cruelty. He, however, secured his divorce, and within a week had added to it a civil divorce, adjudged by a jury at the Court of King's Bench

Caroline's father, born Archibald James Edward Stewart , was the son of a duke's daughter (though this identity became a matter for dispute). He was one of two claimants to the landed estates of his...

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

On 27 September 1946 MGM complained to the BBC about an allegedly hostile review by EAR . This led her to a court battle. The High Court awarded her £1,500 in libel damages, but on...