Sarah Clarke, the first woman to be appointed to the role of Black Rod in its 670-year history, will leave Parliament later ...

TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 January 1985 and footage is now available to watch online on the House of ...

Members discuss draft law to introduce new multiplier standards and remove relief rates from charitable private schools.

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The King leaves Buckingham Palace in a procession that makes its way through the streets to the Houses of Parliament. The King then arrives at Sovereign's Entrance. When the King is seated upon the ...

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The Progress of Public Bills list includes the dates of all stages of public bills laid before Parliament this session. The Public Bill pages on the Parliamentary website have been relaunched with a ...

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Chroniclers of the Great Fire of London, such as the diarist Samuel Pepys, praised King Charles II and his brother James the Duke of York for their indefatigable assistance to fire fighting.

In 1918 Parliament passed the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act which allowed women to become MPs for the first time. It was a very short Act, only one page long, stating simply that women were ...