She worked for Unilever ( 1973 – 75 ) and then as an administrator at the University of London ( 1975 – 87 ) before entering Parliament.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

He painted an important series of paintings in Venice, Italy, and in London he painted two important series — views of Parliament and views of Charing Cross Bridge.

Image: Claude Monet Houses of Parliament. jpg | Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog ( Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard ) ( 1904 ), sold for US $ 20. 1 million.

In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.

Dublin suffered a period of political and economic decline during the 19th century following the Act of Union of 1800, under which the seat of government was transferred to the Westminster Parliament in London.

The British Parliament first guaranteed diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors in 1709, after Count Andrey Matveyev, a Russian resident in London, had been subjected to verbal and physical abuse by British bailiffs.

Greater London occupies the same area as the London European Parliament constituency.

They had the right to " reserve " legislation passed by the Parliament of Australia: in other words, to ask the Colonial Office in London for an opinion before giving the Royal Assent.

He was arrested and taken to London, where Parliament defeated a motion to execute him by 96 – 82.

In the last years of his life, Fox continued to participate in the London Meetings, and still made representations to Parliament about the sufferings of Friends.

On this date, the Scots Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.

In March 1642 with the King absent from London and the war clouds gathering, Parliament decreed that its own Parliamentary Ordinances were valid laws, even without royal assent.

Control of the London trained bands was the most strategically critical, because they could protect the radical members of Parliament from armed intervention against them by any soldiers which Charles had near the capital.

Parliament ordered the regiments of Col. Morley and Col. Moss to march to Westminster for their security, and sent for the rest of the troops that were about the London to draw down to them also with all speed.

That decision arose under a statute of Parliament enabling the London College of Physicians to levy fines against anyone who violated their rules.

Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.

Increasing the carrying capacity of London ’ s sewerage system has been debated for some years.

The decision was made by the exiled Norwegian government in London in 1944, later to be debated three times in the Parliament during the trials, and to be confirmed by the Supreme Court.

It also saw the first student teach-in at Oxford, where students debated alternative non-violent means of protest and protests at the London School of Economics against the government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia.

In March 2007 he debated antitheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and A. C. Grayling in London on the topic " Are We Better Off Without Religion ?".

Greenway used a classical tradition, unaffected by the revivalist styles that were being debated in London at the time he arrived in the colony.

London Mechanics Institute ( later renamed Birkbeck, University of London ) where he debated with

Although he had arrived with a bad character from London, his new supervisor resolved to judge him on his merits ; by Trollope's account, within a year he had the reputation of a valuable public servant.

He wrote some plays that were produced on the London stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of Charles and Fanny Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist.

The Latin introduction to this work states “ Sibthorp took with him a painter of excellent reputation, Ferdinand Bauer, whose merits our illustrations demonstrate .” Joseph Hooker called Flora Graeca, with its 966 superbly hand-coloured illustrations, “ the greatest botanical work that has ever appeared ” ( On the Flora of Australia, London, 1859 ).

There was considerable debate about the competing merits of the two possible sites, and Forwood's committee was inclined to favour the London Road triangle.

In the same year, while on leave in London, Henry spoke before the Home Office Belper Committee on the identification of criminals on the merits of Bertillonage and fingerprinting.

Basque through his father, Abbadie developed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte in London.

The lines between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks hardened in April 1905 when the Bolsheviks held a Bolsheviks-only meeting in London, which they called the Third Party Congress.

In 1868 the first croquet all-comers ' meeting was held at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London.

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

An annual meeting called " The Pol-Mil Talks " ( for Political-Military ) of all concerned is held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to resolve pertinent issues.

The Institute of Economic Affairs arranged a meeting between Hayek and Thatcher in London soon after.

Over the next year he visited them in London, often meeting their friend Max Plowman.

A female Quaker preaches at a meeting in London

On meeting Fox in London, he fell to his knees and begged Fox's forgiveness.

In response, a general meeting was called on March 29 in London to remove Mathers as chief and expel him from the Order.

The current list of Emerging Groups after the last meeting of the Executive Committee ( London, 22 – 25 November 2008 ) is as follows:

Further debt relief constituted another infusion of favorable developments for Madagascar when on June 11, 2005, at a pre-G8 summit meeting in London, world leaders agreed to write off $ 40 billion in debt owed by the world's poorest countries.

It held its first public meeting on July 4, in London.

#: Allied troops were to withdraw immediately from Tehran and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September, 1945.

The three eventually joined forces in London during 1970 – 71 after meeting through mutual friends and decided to form a rock band.

Shortly afterwards, during a council meeting held on 13 June at the Tower of London, Richard accused Hastings and others of having conspired against him with the Woodvilles, with Jane Shore, lover to both Hastings and Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, acting as a go-between.

Addressing a London meeting of the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants he notably defined Integration:

The first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard Church in London in 1651 under the leadership of Dr. Peter Chamberlen.

At the time of the London gentlemen's club, where there was a meeting place for every interest, including poetry, philosophy and politics, Philip, Duke of Wharton's Hell-Fire Club was, according to Blackett-Ord, a satirical " gentlemans club " which was known to ridicule religion, catching onto the then-current trend in England of blaspheming religion.

* March 20 – At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland.

** The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.

* Edward Lloyd opens the London coffee house that soon becomes a popular meeting place for shipowners, merchants, insurance brokers and underwriters.