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  • Science in Parliament.
  • The Houses of Parliament, viewed from Lambeth Bridge. Photograph.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Parliament House with Table Mountain behind. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • The Houses of Parliament burning and people are rushing to see the fire. Lithograph by W. Newman after himself.
  • A diary and plan of the siege of Colchester, by the Parliament Forces, under the Command of General Fairfax, 1648.
  • Cape Town, South Africa: houses of parliament. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Babies at a maternity hospital refusing to breast feed until the Houses (of Parliament) are dissolved. Coloured lithograph by J.E. Chaponnière, 1831.
  • Disraeli leaving Parliament with heavy luggage (war, imperialism, ruin, distress ...) on his shoulders; he is followed by Stafford Northcote. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1880.
  • Queen Elizabeth I, holding a sceptre and an orb, wearing the dress she customarily wore at the opening of Parliament. Engraving after I. Oliver, 1620.
  • W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the Clerks of the Parliament and the Clerks of the Privy Seal. Engraving by J. Basire after a drawing by William Camden, 1791.
  • This is to certify that ... of ... has been duly elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain : incorporated by royal charter A.D. 1843, charter confirmed by Parliament 1852.
  • William Marriott, member of Parliament for Brighton, as Hercules fighting a two-headed hydra with the faces of W.E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 1 March 1884.
  • Population of all the principal places throughout the World : from the last census, printed by order of Parliament ... including, also, foreign population in all parts of the globe, 1846 / J. Truscott, printer, Nelson Square.
  • Catalogue of the Society of Apothecaries, London : who have been examined, and are by act of Parliament exempted from all Parish, Ward and Leet offices, and from serving on juries : incorporated 1617 ... / Frederick Kanmacher.
  • Charles Bradlaugh being arrested by the police in 1881 for refusing to take the oath as a Member of Parliament, and subsequently rejoicing at the passage of his Oaths Bill in 1888. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1888.
  • The grim reaper attacks a young woman shielding a centaur and nine vignettes show disasters predicted to occur in the year 1834, including a fire in London that destroyed the Houses of Parliament and part of the city. Aquatint.
  • Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament, 1866. The Lord Chancellor reading the Royal Speech in the House of Lords. The Queen makes reference to the cattle plague and the orders which have been made to prevent the spread of the disease.
  • Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament, 1866. The Lord Chancellor reading the Royal Speech in the House of Lords. The Queen makes reference to the cattle plague and the orders which have been made to prevent the spread of the disease.
  • Two doctors - left, the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and right, H. H. Asquith - recommending different remedies to an irate patient; representing arguments surrounding the Parliament Act of 1911 and reform in the House of Lords. Pen drawing by F.C. Gould, 1911.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • Abstract of quarantine regulations : it is in the first place to be observed, that all persons are presumed to know, and are bound to take notice, not only of quarantine regulations established by Act of Parliament, (as they are of any other Public Act), but likewise every Order in Council made for the performance of quarantine.
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.