Charles I, (19 November 1600 - 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution. Charles famously engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England. He was an advocate of the...

Charles II (Charles Stuart; 29 May 1630 - 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. According to royalists (and retrospective English law), Charles II became king when his father Charles I was executed at Whitehall...

George III (1760-1815). The first two Hanoverian kings were ignorant of English politics and obliged to rely on their ministers. Moreover, they cared more for Hanover than for England. But George II had English ideas. He was born and...

James II of England and Ireland, James VII of Scotland (14 October 1633 - 16 September 1701) was King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of...

A map from 1880 of Hindostan (India) after the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857), when the government of India, by act of Parliament, was taken out of the hands of the East India Company and vested in the English crown. The map...

A map of the British Thirteen Colonies at the end of the colonial period in 1774. The map shows the boundaries of the colonies and notes the uncolored territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes as claimed by Georgia,...

A map of England and Wales as they were on May 1, 1643, during the First English Civil War (1642-1646). The map is color-coded to show the districts held by the King and districts controlled by Parliament in the ongoing English Civil...

A map of England and Wales as they were on November 23, 1644, during the First English Civil War (1642-1646). The map is color-coded to show the districts held by the King and districts controlled by Parliament in the ongoing English...

A map of England & Wales, subtitled "Parliamentary Representation in 1832 Before The Reform Bill." The Reform Act made wide-ranging changes in the electoral system in the United Kingdom due, in part, to the growth of large and...

A sketch map of London and the surrounding vicinity around 1909, showing the city boundaries, major roads, railways, parks, and the landmarks of Regent's Park, Victoria Park, Kensington Garden, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Westminster...

A plan of central London from 1909, showing thoroughfares, railways and railway stations, tramway routes, and underground railways, bridges across the River Thames, parks, hospitals, bridges, and landmarks such as Kensington Garden, Hyde...

A map of England and Wales at the outbreak of the English Civil War (1642-1651). The map is color-coded to show the districts and places controlled by the King Charles I of England in pink and those controlled by Parliament in Yellow.

Victoria Tower, Houses of Parliament (London)

A BBC report describes the Indian Parliament attack of December 13 and the circumstances surrounding it.

This BBC archive article from 2004 reports on the February election in Iran in which the conservatives won and have appointed a nonclerical speaker of the parliament.

The story of Henry Grattan's influence on the Irish Parliament in the late 1700's.

A nice biography of the famous British abolitionist who served in Parliament during the late 18th and early 19th century.

Claude Tidd was an RCMP officer in the Yukon and an avid photographer. Together with his wife, Mary, a prolific letter-writer, they documented life in the Yukon as they lived and saw it. They intermingled with all strata of society and...

The BBC discusses the situation in Kosovo as its parliament unanimously endorses its independence from Serbia. Although celebrated by tens of thousands, trouble ensued. (17 February 2008)

The BBC discusses the situation in Kosovo as its parliament unanimously endorses its independence from Serbia. Although celebrated by tens of thousands, trouble ensued. (17 February 2008)

The National Library and Archives of Canada has a website dedicated to each province's road to Confederation in Canada. This section on New Foundland begins years before their eventual inclusion in 1949, but does include a section on...

Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 13 August 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of...

( -1847) Elected Member of Parliament 1828, Roman Catholic

Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.