A Bulldog Keeps Watch

The statue of Winston Churchill (Ivor Roberts-Jones 1973) watches over the parliamentary offices of Portcullis House (Michael Hopkins and Partners 2001) and Big Ben. (Elizabeth Tower, Houses of Parliament / Palace of Westminster) Parliament Square, London.

The beauty of the city

“Fall on!” Convinced of victory, troops of Parliament’s Eastern Association army break ranks and attack their fleeing Royalist opponents!
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The Eastern Association was the organisation of counties in the east of England - Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire - that funded and administered an army which eventually became a mainstay of the Parliamentarian military effort towards the end of 1644. Commanded by the Earl of Manchester, whose regiment we reenact, the Eastern Association not only helped shore up Parliament’s war effort but also provided the veteran troops who would form the backbone of the New Model Army and fostered the rise of Oliver Cromwell, who went from raising a volunteer cavalry troop to being King in all but name. Manchester had been one of the chief opponents of the king in the House of Lords and his Eastern Association army enjoyed success in its campaign against the northern forces of the Earl of Newcastle, defeating the Royalists in Lincolnshire, relieving Hull, capturing Lincoln, and then heading north to besiege York and, eventually, helping gain victory at Marston Moor.
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The tensions and arguments in its ranks between Presbyterians and Independents presaged the coming battle for control of Parliament between the two groups, and the political, religious, and military make-up of the Eastern Association remains a fascinating but sometimes misunderstood aspect of the first English Civil War.
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Shaun Stothard
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I really like Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s old comic series from back in the 1900s, and there’s this one with a part about rooks. Apparently a gathering of rooks is called a parliament, because sometimes hundreds of them all land in a field with one at the middle who everyone is looking at, and the guy in the middle goes “Caw! Caw! Caw!” for a while. But sometimes the rest of the rooks don’t like what the rook in the middle had to say, so they straight up peck it right to death. OR SO NEIL GAIMAN CLAIMED. But I looked it up, and that is bullshit. Rooks do NOT hold parliamentary proceedings, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

On 1 February 1913, Leonora Cohen made history when she threw an iron bar at the Crown Jewels in protest at the Government. Becoming known as the ‘Tower Suffragette’, Leonora dedicated her life to fighting for women’s suffrage and equality. Not only did she campaign for women’s right to vote in 1918 and 1928, but incredibly she fought again in her late nineties for the passing of the Equal Pay Act in 1970. This gave men and women equal pay for equal work, something that she had been fighting for from the very beginning. 

Discover Leonora Cohen’s remarkable story in our film (http://bit.ly/LeonoraCohen) and find out how you can get involved in our programme of events marking the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 here: http://bit.ly/VotesandVoices

~by night

Parliament, Budapest

d a v is on

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Reichstag - Berlin 

DO YOU THINK GRENADA SHOULD HAVE CARNIVAL?⤵️ ⓦ〽️

GRENADA LOOKS LIKE THEY MAY NOT BE HAVING ANY CARNIVAL FOR 2021

#Grenada Legal Affairs Minister Kindra Maturine-Stewart has told the Parliament that the cancellation of the traditional carnival celebrations and the designated holiday days in August under the Bank Holidays Act is meant to keep the island safe and protect citizens from becoming infected with the Covid-19 virus.

“The Bank Holidays Act provides that the bank holidays for the second Monday and Tuesday in August shall be known and be referred to as Carnival August celebrations… there [will be] no carnival and the bank holidays given to celebrate the same shall be vacated this year,” she told the #Parliament while explaining Government’s decision to cancel carnival and the designated holidays assigned to celebrate the annual event in August

“I believe it will be very negligent and reckless of us as a government, as a people, if we were to have carnival celebrations as we know it for the year 2021,” said Maturine-Stewart as she referred to the Covid-19 situation in other islands where there are outbreaks of the virus. Via: @nowgrenada
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Detail from the statue of Pallas Athena, which dominates the barrier in front of the entrance of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna.

Λεπτομέρια από το άγαλμα της Αθηνάς Παλλάδας που δεσπόζει στο φράγμα που βρίσκεται μπροστά από την είσοδο της αυστριακής βουλής στη Βιέννη.