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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

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2021-08-13

Holland Doughal, human Twilight Cleric, of the Parliament of Payra

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2021-08-12

kiss starved hubert watching ferdinand running adrestian parliament like

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2021-08-07

The Programme for Gov will be announced when Parl reconvenes & is likely to incl a commitment to GRA reform.

To coincide with first FMQs, we invite everyone to a demo at Parliament on Thurs 2nd Sep at 11am.

Let MSPs know & say to selfID

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2021-08-06

31 July 1645 Bath in Somerset was captured in a surprise attack by Parliamentarian forces led by Colonel John Okey. Okey was a commissioner at Charles I's trial in 1649, and executed as a Regicide in 1662. Image in our collection.

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2021-07-31

📅#OTD 1643, Parliament's Lord General, the Earl of Essex, writes a frank letter.
3000 soldiers of his army are sick, through 'Want of pay, ill Clothing, and all other Miseries which attend an unpaid, sickly Army'.
He calls for an enquiry into Parliament's loss of the West .. 1/2

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2021-07-28

What did in parliament yesterday feels revolutionary

Etiquette is created and maintained by powerful people to preserve their interests and suppress dissent.

Dawn spoke the truth ✊

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2021-07-23

a parliament of chess positions

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2021-07-19

You got this!! We’re cheering for you! 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate? *the parliament* HAMMER 🎉🙌🏻

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2021-07-19

risked her life for Ireland's freedom, became the first woman elected to Westminster Parliament, and Dáil Éireann, and the first woman Minister in a modern western European democracy.

Her husband Casimir telegraphed news of her death to Lissadell

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2021-07-15

Wena o mopedi wa stlatla o tšea ke phefo... We spend years singing Zuma must fall with you le ge ba go topa bago lahlela ka ntle ga Parliament we believed in you today onyako lwela Zuma.... O leshilo lago nagana ka potla le dimpa ftsek.

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2021-07-12

👍Great on re campaign to end public sexual harassment
👉Calling for legislation
👉Representation shapes policy
👉2 times more men than women at Westminster, most people in power do not live this

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2021-07-10

Just refreshed my wall Battersea with this one-off handmade print of the Parliament Hill Lido. Show runs till Sunday. I’m at Stand E7 with North London Printmakers

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2021-07-09

1782 Edmund Burke (died 1797) addressed following the death of Rockingham & appointment of Shelburne as "Would any man in his sober senses try whether a wolf would agree with lambs?"

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2021-07-09

On 6 June 1650, the first issue of the newsbook 'Mercurius Politicus' reported how 600 soldiers 'on horseback' defended the '#Parliament & City from Tumults, Rebellions' by the 'roaring Boys' but the latter '[were] so lost in Ale' to be any real threat.

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2021-07-06

⚔️#OTD 1643, Battle of Lansdown Hill,
Ralph Hopton's royalists fight their way up the 150 foot hill.
Overnight, the parliamentarians withdraw, but Hopton is then blinded by an accidental gunpowder explosion - 'hardly so much life as not to be numbered with the dead'.

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2021-07-05

Striking cover art by Nube (Laura Ospina) for a European Parliament report.

See more of Laura's work at https://t.co/wkUwMDi2xg

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2021-07-02