Private Acts were so named as they passed powers or benefits to individuals or bodies rather than the general public. Parliament's role was to arbitrate between the promoters of these Private Acts and ...

Proceedings on railway Bills were far from a foregone conclusion. Many of the best-known railway projects failed at their first attempt. These included the Liverpool and Manchester in 1824 because ...

Who was Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope? Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), was a scientist, inventor and politician. He was MP for High Wycombe between 1780 and 1786 and sat in ...

'Dim cefnogaeth' i'r gadwyn gyflenwi sydd wedi'i heffeithio gan gau porthladd Caergybi medd Cadeirydd y Pwyllgor Mae Cadeirydd y Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig wedi ysgrifennu at y Llywodraeth yn gofyn sut ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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The Scottish Highland Roads and Bridges Act 1803, 43 Geo III c.80, established a Commission to supervise the expenditure of moneys on the construction of Highland roads and bridges. Thomas Telford ...