House of Commons

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Clara Balfour
Clara Lucas , who was not yet sixteen, married James Balfour , who worked in the Ways and Means Office in the House of Commons .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
Reception Helen Bannerman
HB 's high standing with parents and generations of children in Britain, Europe, the USA, and the British Commonwealth began to be shaken by allegations of racism while she was still alive, though she found...
politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
politics Annie Besant
The Monster Petition against parliamentary grants to royal personages
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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was presented to the House of Commons , AB having organized signature collection the previous year.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
The book preceded Caroline Norton 's A Voice from the Factories by three years. It includes a dedication to economist and social reformer Michael Thomas Sadler , who fought to improve child labour conditions. Bowles...
Intertextuality and Influence Caroline Bowles
An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey 's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons .
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...
politics Mary Carpenter
The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.
In 1831 the House of Lords defeated...
Reception Katherine Chidley
The House of Commons voted to forbid anyone except ordained clergy to preach publicly or to write against church government: a specific target of this vote was KC , and a general target was women.
Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 213-33.
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politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...
politics Clara Codd
CC took part in the rush on the House of Commons led by Christabel Pankhurst . She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol , becoming the...
politics Constance, Countess Markievicz
About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books.
243, 245
Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg.
104-5
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...

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20 January 1265: Simon de Montfort, statesman and leader of...

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20 January 1265

Simon de Montfort , statesman and leader of a rebellion against King Henry III (his brother-in-law), summoned an assembly, including two knights from each county and two elected representatives of each borough, to bolster support...

November 1382: The House of Commons requested Richard II...

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November 1382

The House of Commons requested Richard II to make use of wise officers and honest and discreet councillors.
Saul, Nigel. Richard II. Yale University Press.
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4 January 1642: Charles I entered the House of Commons with...

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4 January 1642

Charles I entered the House of Commons with the intention of arresting the five men he regarded as opposition ringleaders, including Pym and Hampden ; the result was a public-relations defeat for the monarchy.

1 February 1642: London women petitioned the House of Commons...

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1 February 1642

London women petitioned the House of Commons for peace; a second petition followed three days later.

23 April 1649: London women brought the Petition of divers...

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23 April 1649

London women brought the Petition of divers wel-affected women before the House of Commons demanding the release of John Lilburne and other Levellers .

25 November 1689: The House of Commons accepted the final wording...

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25 November 1689

The House of Commons accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.

October 1710: The Tories won a large majority in the general...

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October 1710

The Tories won a large majority in the general election, leading to a predominantly Tory ministry under the leadership of Robert Harley .

9 December 1719: The House of Commons received a petition...

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9 December 1719

The House of Commons received a petition from merchants of Bristol complaining that fashionable imports of India Chints, Callicoes and Linen
Perkins, Joe. “Searchers, not Planners”. London Review of Books, pp. 37-9.
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were ruining people in the woollen trade.

3 June 1720: The House of Commons agreed to amendments...

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3 June 1720

The House of Commons agreed to amendments from the Lords to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.

18 May 1723: The Black Act (originally directed against...

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18 May 1723

The Black Act (originally directed against night-time poaching) passed the House of Commons .

3-30 April 1735: Sir John Barnard's bill for regulating the...

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3-30 April 1735

Sir John Barnard 's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons , but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.

Just before 15 May 1738: Captain Robert Jenkins displayed to the House...

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Just before 15 May 1738

Captain Robert Jenkins displayed to the House of Commons (as an incentive to declaring war against Spain) his severed ear.

1752: The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against...

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1752

The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.

23 April 1763: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill's North...

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23 April 1763

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill 's North Briton number 45 attacked the king's speech; the arrest of Wilkes and the printers followed.

17 December 1765: The king's speech in the House of Commons...

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17 December 1765

The king's speech in the House of Commons mentioned that matters of importance had occurred in America and made anodyne promises of diligence and attention.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon.
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Texts

Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. House of Commons, 1851.