UK Parliamentary Archives

A political cartoon depicting a brightly coloured coach pulled by four horses. The coach is heading uphill towards a cliff face labelled ?The Devil?s Dyke?. The coach contains seven men and two wo...

A political cartoon depicting three men outside ?The United Empire Arms of John Bull? bowling while the landlord looks on. The bowling ball is labelled ?Crimes Bill?. The pins are all the heads of...

A political cartoon depicting a courtroom scene. William Gladstone is dressed as a barrister. He is currently pleading a case, with one hand on a book and the other gesturing towards the judge. Ran...

A political cartoon depicting a large group of men in grey soldiers? uniforms gathering under the flags of ?National League? and ?Home Rule?, Their leader, William Gladstone, is shown on a white ho...

A political cartoon depicting the Royal coach, containing a number of cowboys, including Randolph Churchill, is under attack from a group of Native Americans on horseback Some of the Native America...

A political cartoon depicting Queen Victoria on a beach alongside the lion and the unicorn from the Royal coat of arms. The lion holds a tankard and smokes a pipe while the unicorn smokes a cigar a...

A political cartoon depicting a number of pigs trying to cross a river via a piece of wood labelled ?National League?. The wood has slipped and several pigs have fallen into the water below, which ...

This political cartoon depicts Lord Salisbury brandishing a rolled up Proclamation at a cowering Irish Patriot. This Irish Patriot has a sword and two guns tied about his waist and has just dropped...

This cartoon formed part of the front cover of the magazine St Stephen?s Review. A man stands outside a cage which contains a skunk with a man?s face. Underneath is satirical text written as though...

This cartoon formed part of the front cover of the magazine St Stephen?s Review. A man stands outside a cage which contains a striped hyena with a man?s face. Underneath is satirical text as though...

This cartoon formed part of the front cover of the magazine, St Stephen?s Review. The cartoon depicts a man in front of a cage gesturing towards the two monkeys inside. The monkeys have human heads...

This cartoon formed part of the front cover of the magazine, St Stephen?s Review. The cartoon depicts a man standing in front of a cage blocking his ears with his fingers, Inside the cage are five ...

A political cartoon depicting two boxers symbolising St Stephen?s Review and The Hansard Union. The Hansard Union boxer lies prone, supported by two men with dark jackets and red neckerchiefs. The ...

This political cartoon depicts a number of men on a stagecoach.

This copy is incomplete with the bottom and the right-hand side of the drawing missing.

This political cartoon depicts two men stood on a wooden bridge. A donkey labelled ?Home Rule Bill? is falling off the bridge.

This cartoon does not contain any labels indicating that it was publ...

A precedent book containing various proceedings in the House of Lords arranged under several headings.

Contains two volumes: "Vox Populi", a record of the World Disarmament conference in Geneva, 1932 and a preliminary report on the work of the Conference.

The papers consist of correspondence, newspaper cuttings, booklets and photographs, mostly relating to Baden-Powell's overseas interests including Ireland and, in particular, the Bering Straits dis...

This collection of his papers relates almost entirely to the 1830s and 1840s, and is of interest chiefly for a series of letters from his friend Henry Brougham. His later work as connoisseur, archa...

Manuscript record of the memorial bust of John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, placed in the West Front Corridor, House of Lords in 1933; with a list of 27 donors.

Includes a bound volume, a des...

The political and private papers of John Colin Campbell Davidson, Viscount Davidson from 1911-1979. The Davidson Papers are of particular interest, not only because of Davidson's work as Chancello...

Printed papers regarding the "Case of Hamilton Flemyng, Esquire, (claiming the titles, honour, and dignity of) Earl of Wigtoun, Lord Flemyng and Cumbernauld." Two annotated "To be heard on 8th May ...

Grants and letters patent awarded to Baron Kitson.

The files were made up by the Secretaries to the Leader (principally during the service of Sir Charles Hendriks), although there is much personal matter of the Leaders intermixed. Of particular no...

The papers in this collection include: synopses of diaries, 1948-51, 1951-2, 1960-65, "Extracts from the Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart" (1937-62 compiled by Mr.R. N. Bruce Lockhart) and simi...

This collection consists of papers collected or created by Sir Clive Morrison-Bell throughout his life. They include diaries, press cuttings, the draft chapters of his unpublished autobiography and...

LOW contains personal and family correspondence and papers.

Letter from Sir Samuel Romilly concerning parliamentary law. Addressed to 'My dear Sir', the letter continues 'The question which you put to me however is one upon which if I were consulted profes...

The Bonar Law papers provide a great deal of interest, particularly in relation to the Unionist Party and Unionist opinion between 1911 and 1923, as virtually all prominent Unionists wrote constant...

Detailed daily entries for the first quarter of 1822 which stop abruptly in mid-entry, half way through the volume.

This is clearly a speech made by an MP in the House of Commons, as there are several references to "Mr Speaker". It probably dates from the early 17th century, c 1640, as there are references to mo...

The papers of William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate contain political papers (ST/1-284), personal papers (ST/285-292), printed material (ST/293), and, photographs (ST/294).

The general pol...

This collection contains around 400 letters from John Parker, MP to Philip Fanner (PAR/1-12). From 1947 to c.1960 the letters are almost exclusively personal (PAR/1-8). Later letters contain some...

This is a minute book of the Parliamentary Farmers' Club (established 1795) showing lists of members being voted in and chairing the meetings; it also includes minutes of the members' meetings.

Private and political papers of Lord Shackleton covering a wide range of subjects, including the Falkland Islands, Eastern European Trade Council and science and technology; they also include pape...

This is a minute book of the Parliamentary Farmers' Club (established 1795) showing lists of members being voted in and chairing the meetings; it also includes minutes of the members' meetings.

In this letter to the Speaker, J Lewis Ricardo MP mentions that he encloses (missing) a short statement regarding a case which they both discussed in the Commons the day before; he mentions that h...

This series contains three volumes of photographs of Peers (HL/PO/LB/2/1-3) each with an index and five volumes of photographs of MPs (HL/PO/LB/2/4-8). The latter are not indexed but each page is n...

This collection contains over 3200 19th century photographs. Most of them are of politicians, but there are also images of Queen Victoria (autographed), officers of the House of Commons (including...

Volume containing autographs of politicians and public servants, including King George III, c.1788-1890. The volume also includes a petition (and covering letter) of Lord Randolph Churchill and 21...

The papers comprise correspondence between Thomas Greene and Charles Barry, commissioners, MPs and others, mainly connected either with the construction of the new Chamber of the House of Commons o...

These are the political papers of (Thomas) Charles Pannell. The first series (PAN/1) are minutes of the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law (1965-68) and related papers. The second and third s...

In this test roll, Lord Nelson is one of the subscribers to the oaths. He was clearly told to delete his foreign title of "Bronte" which he had written as part of his signature, and possibly made ...

This file comprises notes, partially in shorthand, containing the announcement made by the Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords upon receiving news of the assassination of the Prime Minister Spenc...