A visit to Parliament
By: by Graham Cawthorne.
Publisher: G. Cawthorne
Published: 1976
Place of publication: [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Westminster Palace (London, England) -- Guidebooks.; Great Britain. Parliament -- History.; Westminster (London, England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Notes: "The history that was made in Parliament and where in Parliament's five chambers; and the men who made it--Simone de Montfort, Guy Fawkes, Charles 1st, Oliver Cromwell; Walpole, the world's first 'prime' minister; murder in the lobby of the House; Disraeli and Gladstone (and Queen Victoria); the suffragette who threw a bag of flour at the prime minister; the abdication of a king. And, of course, Winston Churchill.  Where Britain lost the American colonies; the men who lost them and a strange sequel.  A special chapter for the American visitor.  When a bomb lifted Coeur de Lion into the air and the day Big Ben went mad!"--Cover.