Members consider changes to draft legislation to align UK law with international marine conservation agreements.

Members of the House of Lords will debate the key areas of the Victims and Courts Bill on Tuesday 16 December.

Lords members are set to quiz the government on enabling women over the age of 70 to continue to be invited to have mammograms, school budgets in deprived areas disproportionately used on providing ...

On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to explain that he had accepted the King's invitation to form a Government when only days previously it had been generally believed ...

Within 30 years of Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660, England was once again on the verge of civil war. In 1688 the country was invaded by a foreign army and its King fled, as the Crown ...

Discover the fascinating story of Defence of the Realm Act 1914 and the incredible impact it had on British society both during the First World War and the rest of the 20th century. When introduced ...

Big Ben undergoes the biggest conservation in its history Affectionately known around the world as Big Ben and shrouded in scaffolding from 2017-2022, the Elizabeth Tower was repaired from the gilt ...

In 1885, homosexuality was only illegal in regards to the act of buggery, for which the punishment was to be kept in penal servitude for life. This changed when Henry Labouchere, Liberal MP for ...

The issues of crime and policing were taken up by Robert Peel when he became Home Secretary in 1822. Peel and his ministerial colleagues saw the increase in criminal activity as a threat to the ...

The British North America Act received Royal Assent on 29th March 1867 and went into effect 1st July 1867. The Act united the three separate territories of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a ...

Nobody set out to create Parliament. It developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King and his government. Nor did it develop continuously over time, but went through short ...

St Stephen's Hall stands on the site of the royal Chapel of St Stephen's, where the House of Commons sat until the Chapel was destroyed by the fire of 1834. The hall closely matches the dimensions of ...