The Sporting Events Bill had its third reading, a chance for members to make sure the eventual law is effective, workable and without loopholes on Tuesday 21 July. The Sporting Events Bill will ...

Thank you for coming along to this event and thank you to Ruth Fox, Baroness Taylor of Bolton and the Hansard Society for ...

Learn with the Lords provides a range of opportunities for young people aged 7 to 18 to engage with members of the House of Lords. In a 45-minute Microsoft Teams video call, school groups and home ...

The Lord Speaker’s Lecture series has run since 2010, providing members of the House of Lords and external experts with a forum to deliver lectures and answer questions on their specialist subjects or ...

The Speaker is perhaps best known as the person who keeps order and calls MPs to speak during Commons debates and question times. Their role is to act as a neutral referee between the different sides ...

Mass political party membership became a phenomenon in Britain only after 1945. The Labour Party first formed in 1900, but only started collating its membership figures from 1928. The Conservative ...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the government's chief finance minister and one of the most senior members of the Cabinet. They are responsible for setting levels of taxation and public spending ...

From the early 19th century as the workload of the courts increased, Parliament was pressed to take action to reform the operation of the judicial system. Between 1805 and 1842 the number of ...

The Speaker is one of the most important figures in British parliamentary politics. Speakers are central to the image and mythology of Westminster, some of them credited with founding the distinctive ...

Its last remaining monopoly over the China tea trade was abolished in 1833. Parliament allowed the Company to maintain its political and administrative duties in India, but the charter of 1813 ...

Henry VIII's break with Rome during the 1530s meant momentous changes in the nation's religious affairs. It also placed Parliament in a pre-eminent position in relation to the new Church of England.

Over many centuries Parliament has had a deep and profound impact on the religious aspects of people's lives. For a nearly a thousand years until the 1530s, most people worshipped as part of an ...