One of the earliest railway Acts was passed in 1801 for the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway between Wandsworth and Croydon. The number gradually increased, including pioneering lines such as the ...
The dawn of the railways marked a new age of quicker, cheaper communications. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had established the idea that mail could be carried by train, and other railways ...
Turnpikes have been called "one of the central pillars on which the industrial revolution was based". The quality of roads was vital, because many industries producing light high-value goods, notably ...
Kenneth Morgan, ‘Mercantilism and the British Empire, 1688-1815' in Donald Winch (ed.) The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914, (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 165-92 ...
A private notice question (PNQ) gives a member of the House of Lords the opportunity to ask an urgent and important question to the government on any sitting day. A member of the Lords can apply to ...
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From early times, transport petitions have been submitted to Parliament about roads. For example, the Parliament Rolls record of 1290 has Walter Goodlake of Wallingford seeking permission to levy ...
Parliament offers fellowships in which academics come and conduct projects at Parliament. There are opportunities for academic researchers at any stage of their career. In the Parliamentary Academic ...
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The removal of James II by the protestant William of Orange in 1688 – the Glorious Revolution – changed matters. The resumption of war with Catholic France in the 1690s meant that British Catholics ...
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