History

When the authorities began to plan reconstruction after the war, the Press Gallery asked for more seats, more [...]

In about 1870 Speaker Denison stopped members of the public from wandering into the Members Lobby to [...]

Before note-taking was allowed in the Chamber, editors relied on “memory men” to sit in the public [...]

The Second World War cemented relations between press and Parliament, for a while at least. For those who [...]

Like the Commons, the Press Gallery was men-only until early in the last century. And when the first female [...]

In the 200 years since the founding of the Press Gallery, celebrated novelists, politicians, pamphleteers, [...]

Carolyn Quinn writes about Charles Dickens’ time in the Press Gallery in the early 1830′s. Like many [...]

For the first half of its existence, Parliament sat in secret. It guarded its proceedings jealously. The [...]

“I can’t think of another place where journalists from competing papers, from regionals and nationals, [...]