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Rolls containing Acts of Parliament in the Parliamentary Archives at Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster The Parliamentary Archives of the United Kingdom preserves and makes available to the public the records of the House of Lords and House of Commons back to 1497, as well as some 200 other collections of parliamentary interest.
Parliamentary records of the United Kingdom (6 P) S. Speeches in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (4 P) ... Palace of Westminster; Parliament Act 1911; Parliament ...
Since regular parliamentary government was established by the start of the UK Parliament, contenders for longest span of continuous service include the four brothers Sir Robert Peel (also twice prime minister), William Yates Peel, Jonathan Peel and Edmund Peel, with a span of 59 years from Robert's by-election return on 15 April 1809 as MP for ...
1643: John Selden, [10] parliamentary appointee. The royalist choice was the Lancaster Herald, William Ryley. Parliament took on Ryley, who had come to London, in 1644, who served as clerk of the records. [11] [12] 1651: The Long Parliament decided that the Master of the Rolls should take over the post, with a clerk to look into the records. [13]
Both Houses of Parliament were destroyed, along with most of the other buildings in the palace complex. Westminster Hall was saved thanks to fire-fighting efforts and a change in the direction of the wind. The Jewel Tower and the undercroft, cloisters, and chapter house of St Stephen's Chapel were the only other parts of the palace to survive. [7]
View of London from the Victoria Tower in the 1920s Panorama of the Palace of Westminster, with the Victoria Tower at left. The Victoria Tower was purpose-built as a "fireproof repository for books and documents", as required by the competition to rebuild the Palace of Westminster after the fire of 16 October 1834, which had destroyed the building and almost all of the records of the House of ...
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England (established 1215) and the Parliament of Scotland (c. 1235), both Acts of Union stating, "That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be styled The Parliament of Great Britain."
[41] [nb 5] Westminster was rebuilt, and in 1864 substantial changes were made at the tower: the Parliamentary records in the tower were moved to a fire-proof storage facility at the new Victoria Tower; 6–7 Old Palace Yard ceased to be used by the clerk as a house, and the kitchen in the ground floor of the tower was closed. [43]