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.

Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

Celebrations of Wellington's victory at the battle of Salamanca: Sir Francis Burdett's house is attacked, a funeral procession of Whigs passes by, and a toast is drunk to Wellington by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Coloured etching by W.H. Brooke, 1812.

"All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

"At the best alcohol is an expensive luxury; at the worst it is a terrible poison; in between it is a dangerous drug." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

"In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

"I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

"It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

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Facts and observations relating to the administration of medical relief to the sick poor, in England and Wales : addressed to the Members of the Commons House of Parliament.

An alphabetical list of the Right Honourable the Lords, and also 30 of those Members of the Honourable House of Commons, in England and Wales, that were for Dr. Henry Sacheverell.

Water undertakings (England and Wales). : Return to an order of the honourable ... House of commons, dated 24 November 1910 ... / Local government board, 28 July, 1914. H.C. Munro, secretary.

Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 27 February 1893 ; - for, Return "showing the area and population according to the last census  of every urban and rural sanitary district in England and Wales, and also showing as regards every such district and every port sanitary district in England and Wales, whether the Sanitary Authority had, on or before the 31st day of December 1892 made special provision for any accommodation of the nature of an islolation hospital (other than in connection with workhouses) for cases of infectious disease arising in their district, and, if so, giving the folliowing further particulars, &c."

The proceedings in Parliament against Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Albans, and Lord-Chancellor of England, Anno Dom. 1620. With his letters to the House of Lords on that occasion.

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Facts and observations relating to the administration of medical relief to the sick poor, in England and Wales : addressed to the Members of the Commons House of Parliament.

An alphabetical list of the Right Honourable the Lords, and also 30 of those Members of the Honourable House of Commons, in England and Wales, that were for Dr. Henry Sacheverell.

Water undertakings (England and Wales). : Return to an order of the honourable ... House of commons, dated 24 November 1910 ... / Local government board, 28 July, 1914. H.C. Munro, secretary.

The proceedings in Parliament against Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Albans, and Lord-Chancellor of England, Anno Dom. 1620. With his letters to the House of Lords on that occasion.

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Facts and observations relating to the administration of medical relief to the sick poor, in England and Wales : addressed to the Members of the Commons House of Parliament.

An alphabetical list of the Right Honourable the Lords, and also 30 of those Members of the Honourable House of Commons, in England and Wales, that were for Dr. Henry Sacheverell.

Water undertakings (England and Wales). : Return to an order of the honourable ... House of commons, dated 24 November 1910 ... / Local government board, 28 July, 1914. H.C. Munro, secretary.

The proceedings in Parliament against Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Albans, and Lord-Chancellor of England, Anno Dom. 1620. With his letters to the House of Lords on that occasion.