This study sought to estimate the frequency of harassment, threats, assault and stalking faced by Victorian Members of Parliament (MPs), with a focus on gender and experience of online abuse. 46 of 128 MPs completed an online survey (36%). 82% reported experiences of harassment, 85% ...
Charter ) in 1838, with the intention of presenting i t to Parliament. It had six points: (1 )the vote fo r all adult males; (2 )voting by secret ballot; (3 )equal electoral districts; (4 )abolition of p roperty qualifications for members of Parliament; ...
including businessmen, members of Parliament, the nobility and even royalty. They were assured that their philanthropy would create “an enduring principle of gratitude and thankfulness to the superior classes from the labouring community, who from the nature of their employments...
Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design’s addition is the most recent addition toParliament House, which has been built in several stages from 1856. The contemporary freestanding annexe is built within the eastern gardens and provides office accommodation to 102 members ...
The highest class of prostitutes were women who were beautiful and educated enough to only work for only high-class clients, namely aristocrats or members of parliament. Some worked exclusively for one man. Many of these courtesans ended upmarrying their benefactors. ...
Interestingly, an Act of Parliament passed in 1812 specifies that all buildings on the intersection must be located 240 feet from the obelisk (the reason, apparently, for curved facades on some of the surrounding buildings). Claude Monet, ‘Cliffs at Etretat: The Needle Rock and Porte d’Aval...
… In a 1906 survey of the first large cohort of Labour Party Members of Parliament, 16 percent claimed that Dickens was the author or work which had influenced them the most strongly, a percentage point behind Ruskin, but two in front of the Bible. … (查看原文) 然诺 2017-10-21 19...
The railroad carried goods in an hour perhaps as far as the old horse haulage conveyed them in a day, and in immensely greater quantities at a time. An Act of Parliament in 1844 required the railway companies to provide a sufficiency of trains with covered accommodation for passengers at the...
Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these ...
Bidder. Both partners were businessmen with interests in railway companies, both were Members of Parliament, and though later than Cooke, both realised the enormous potentialities of the telegraph service, especially to support the development of the rail network. In its first five years of activity...