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Interior of the House of Lords during a public inquiry into Queen Caroline in 1820. Stipple engraving by J. G. Murray after J. Stephanoff.

A representative of the House of Lords offers whatever they want to a brewer, a mine owner, and a clergyman, but refuses a worker the right to ride along the Thames embankment. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.

Thomas D. Rice performing the "Jump Jim Crow" song and dance in front of British members of the House of Lords. Lithograph by I.H..

Key plate to the print of the death of Lord Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778. Engraving, 1791, after J.S. Copley.

W.E. Gladstone represented as Samson destroying the pillars of the British Constitution by abolition of the House of Lords. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 24 October 1891.

Help us repeal Section 28 now ... / Ben Summerskill, chief Executive, Stonewall.

The death of William Pitt, Lord Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778. Engraving after J. Copley, 1779.

Urgent call to action civil partnership registration ... / Angela Mason, executive director, Stonewall for lesbian and gay equality.

Repeal section 28 parliamentary picket : participant registration form ... / Stonewall for lesbian and gay equality.

An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning the excise of tobacco.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] : amendments to be moved on third reading.

A Bill [as amended in committee] to regulate the use of certain genetically modified organisms for agricultural purposes.

A sermon preached before the Peers in the Abby Church at Westminster, November 7 1666. Being a day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence / By Edward Lord Bishop Norwich.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Disclosure of Information) Bill 1992.

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An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning the excise of tobacco.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] : amendments to be moved on third reading.

A Bill [as amended in committee] to regulate the use of certain genetically modified organisms for agricultural purposes.

A sermon preached before the Peers in the Abby Church at Westminster, November 7 1666. Being a day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence / By Edward Lord Bishop Norwich.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Disclosure of Information) Bill 1992.