High Taxes, Bad Times
John Pemble: Late Georgian Westminster, 10 June 2010
The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-32
by D.R. Fisher.
Cambridge, 6336 pp., £490, December 2009,978 0 521 19314 6 Show More
by D.R. Fisher.
Cambridge, 6336 pp., £490, December 2009,
“... Stephen’s Chapel by Wren in 1692, measured 15 metres by ten and had 348 seats for the 658 MPs. Dark narrow passages and staircases gave access to committee rooms (half of them unfit for use or used for other purposes), a library and a smoking room. MPs overflowed from the floor of the chamber into the side galleries. The back gallery, intended for ... ”
