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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

Recent Planet Arlia Vegeta 3.5 x 5 in commission!

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2021-07-15

here's my girl arlinne! i hope you like her 😊

🎨 @/Kiyoshuki, @/itscarliart, @/_milkteabunny_

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2021-07-13

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

im trying to be more active ok?

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2021-07-03

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

Sept 1649, newsbook 'A perfect diurnall' reports: 'Letter [was] intercepted going from a prisoner in the to the Lord Cottington, wherein... the hopes of that party depends upon his Majesties seeming compliance, with Lilburne & the Levelling party' 1/3.

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2021-07-01

Prior to Cropredy Bridge, Lord General Essex disobeyed orders & marched west, leaving William Waller to battle the King.
Essex was warned that Parliament 'do expect that such Directions ... be observed' & that 'Public Affairs had been in a better Condition' if they had been. https://t.co/DL7kQMCz1h

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2021-06-29

New artwork for sale! - "Houses of Parliament London Sun Breaking through the Fog 1904" - https://t.co/oKl7hC5OM8

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2021-06-29

GUYS! WE HAVE 2 NEW SUB EMOTES! Drawn again by the AMAZING , who drew my previous emotes! Please check her out! She is absolutely awesome! Thank you so much again, Mina!😍
Twitch - @ mina_starliart
Twitter -
Instagram - @ mina_starlia_art

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2021-06-26

John Hampden, Civil War-era Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to Charles I over ship money, died 1643 from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Royalists. In the early 19th c., British radicals named their debating societies ‘Hampden Clubs’ in his honour.

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2021-06-24

24 June 1643 John Hampden died of his wounds sustained days before at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. His loss was a severe blow to the Parliamentarian cause, as he was a moderating force between the various factions in Parliament.

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2021-06-24

UMNO: You better open parliament in 14 days, or else… https://t.co/738BT3KKTa

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2021-06-21