House of Commons

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...

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...

LV 's father, James White , was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. His career forced him to move to China in 1841, and his family followed shortly afterwards without the five- or...

During her trip she frequented the House of Commons where, in the Ladies' Gallery, she listened to parliamentary debates.

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...

The novel explores a theme central to KCT 's work: that of hidden or reinvented identity, or the hero masquerading as someone he is not. In this plot-driven melodrama with elements of sensationalism, John Loder...

The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill in 1866 to the House of Commons . While examining the petition, HT gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...

RS volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor , the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .

MS attended the House of Commons to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill.

MS 's father, John Stockdale , having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons over Warren Hastings ), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale.

FS was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some...

While FS 's lecture tour of the USA on behalf of the British government sparked policy debates in the House of Commons , the American press was fascinated by the female Lawrence of Arabia.

ES spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway , having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Lady Sybil Smith outside the House of Commons .