Queen Anne in the House of Lords, Peter Tillemans (c.1708-14), Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2024
Art, Fashion and Material Culture: History of Parliament image
Buildings/architecture: View of the New House of Parliament from the River, 1860-1870; Alfred Henry Vickers; Image credit: Parliamentary Art Collection, via Art UK
Conferences, Seminars and Events: History of Parliament owned image
Constituencies: Macclesfield’s proposed constituency boundaries in 1832, © The History of Parliament
Corruption: The reformers’ attack on the old rotten tree; or the foul nests of the cormorants in danger; published by E. King (1831); © The Trustees of the British Museum; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Diplomacy and International Relations: The council of the rulers & the elders against the tribe of ye Americanites, 1775,© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Disability history: The Blind Man, Sir John Everett Millais (1853), Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain
Economic history: The “system” that “works so well!”!! – or the boroughmongers grinding machine, George Cruikshank (1831), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Elections: The Guildhall on Election Night, 1880; British (English) School (1880); Image credit: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, via Art UK
Electoral Reform: Massacre at St. Peter’s or “Britons strike home”!!!, George Cruikshank (1819), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Factions: John Glynn, John Wilkes and John Horne Tooke; Richard Houston (after 1769); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Health and Medicine: Aneurin Bevan, Elliot & Fry (1945), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Irish history: The Irish House of Commons, Francis Wheatley (1780), Image credit: Bridgeman Images via Art UK
Legal history: The execution of Robert Tresilian, as depicted in Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, Jean Froissart (15th C). Public Domain
Legislative history: The ‘Six Acts’, 1819, © Parliamentary Archives
LGBTQ+ history: Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Henry Scott Tuke (1897), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Local history: Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae in “Civitates Orbis Terrarum”, Volume VI, 1617. Public Domain image
Military history: Enluminure ornant La Cronicque du temps de tres chrestien roy Charles, septisme de ce nom, roy de France par Jean Chartier, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Français 2691, folio 7 verso.; Philippe de Mazerolles (c. 1470-9); Public Domain image
Minority Ethnic history: Ignatius Sancho, Thomas Gainsborough (1768), © National Gallery of Canada
Oral history: History of Parliament image
Parliamentary Life: The Chairman of Ways and Means, John Wilson Patten MP, chairing Disraeli’s 1852 budget; Source: The Graphic, 24 April 1880, p. 437
Parties: The Bubbles of Opposition, James Gillray (1788), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Religious history: The Liber Regalis, showing Richard and Anne of Bohemia. London, Westminster Abbey, MS 38, f. 20. Public Domain image
Resources and Publications: History of Parliament image
Scottish History: A tartan belle of 1792, Isaac Cruikshank (1792), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Social History: Cellarer and barrels, Treatise on the Vices (late 14th C), British Library, Public Domain image
Speakers of the House: Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1714); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Transatlantic Slave Trade: Am I not a man and a brother? (1837), Library of Congress, Public Domain image
Welsh history: Owain Glynd?r’s Parliament at Machynlleth, from Hutchinson’s History of the Nations (1915), John Harris Valda, Public Domain image.
Women and Parliament: Sketch of the Ventilator, Lady Georgina Chatterton (1821), image source: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Medieval: Battle of Agincourt (1415). Public Domain image
Tudor: Henry VIII at the opening of Parliament, 15 April 1523, © Royal Collection Trust
Stuart: House of Lords and House of Commons during King Charles I’s reign, circa 1640-1642; unknown artist (c.1640-42), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Interregnum: Oliver Cromwell dissolves Parliament, John Hall (1789), Rijksmuseum, Public Domain image
Georgian: The House of Commons – Microcosm of London (1808-1811), Thomas Rowlandson (1808), British Library, Public Domain image.
Victorian: The House of Lords, William Morrison Wyllie (1883), Parliamentary Art Collection via Art UK
Modern: The Right Honourable J. Ramsay Macdonald Addressing the House of Commons, John Lavery (1923), Image credit: Glasgow Life Museums
Sir Robert Walpole: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; Jean Baptiste van Loo (1740); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Spencer Compton, 1st earl of Wilmington: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington; Thomas Athow, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (early 19th c); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry Pelham: Henry Pelham, William Hoare (1751), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, William Hoare, Image credit: Parliamentary Art Collection via Art UK
William Cavendish, 4th duke of Devonshire: William Cavendish, 4th duke of Devonshire; Thomas Hudson; Image credit: The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth
John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute: John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute; Sir Joshua Reynolds (1773); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George Grenville: George Grenville, William Hoare, Imaged credit: Christ Church, University of Oxford via Art UK
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham; Sir Joshua Reynolds (c. 1768); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Pitt the Elder: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; William Hoare (c. 1754); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd duke of Grafton: Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd duke of Grafton; Pompeo Batoni (1762); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Frederick North, Lord North: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Nathaniel Dance (1773-4); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Petty, 2nd earl of Shelburne: William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (Lord Shelburne); Sir Joshua Reynolds (late 18th C); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland: William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; Matthew Pratt (c. 1774); National Gallery of Art, Public Domain image
William Pitt the Younger: William Pitt, Studio of Thomas Gainsborough (1787-9), Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain image
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth: Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth; Sir William Beechey (1803); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville; Gainsborough (c.1790); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Spencer Perceval: Spencer Perceval, George Francis Joseph (1812), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool: Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool; Sir Thomas Lawrence (1793-6); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George Canning: The Right Honourable George Canning (1770-1827), MP; Thomas Lawrence; Image credit: National Trust Images via Art UK
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon; Sir Thomas Lawrence (c. 1824); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Robert Home (1804); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; John Partridge (1844); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Sir Robert Peel: Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt; Henry William Pickersgill; © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Lord John Russell: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1861); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th earl of Derby: Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; W. & D. Downey (1865); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of Aberdeen: George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; John Partridge (c. 1847); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; John Partridge (1844-5); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Benjamin Disraeli: Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; William Lockhart Bogle (1892); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William Gladstone: William Ewart Gladstone, Lock & Whitfield (1880), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Elliott & Fry (1880s); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Archibald Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Roseberry; Rotary Photographic Co Ltd (c.1903); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Arthur Balfour: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; H. Walter Barnett (1903); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (1890s), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Herbert Henry Asquith: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of OXford and Asquith; Reginald Haines (c. 1907); © National Portrait Gallery, London; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
David Lloyd George: David Lloyd George, T. & R. Annan & Sons (1910s), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Andrew Bonar Law: Bonar Law, Bassano Ltd (c. 1913), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Stanley Baldwin: Stanley Baldwin, Vandyk (1927), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Ramsay MacDonald: Ramsay MacDonald, Bassano Ltd (1923), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Neville Chamberlain: Neville Chamberlain, Bassano Ltd (1929), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Winston Churchill: Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, William George Horton (1941), Imperial War Museums, Public Domain image
Clement Atlee: Clement Atlee, Walter Stoneman (1930), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Sir Anthony Eden: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon; Bassano Ltd (1931); © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Harold Macmillan: Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton; Elliott & Fry (1942); © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Sir Alec Douglas-Home: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (c.1963), Dutch National Archives, Public Domain image
Harold Wilson: Harold Wilson, Walter Bird (1962), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward Heath: Sir Edward Heath, Bassano Ltd (1959), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
James Callaghan:James Callaghan (1975); Christian Lambiotte; © European Communities, 1975 / EC, Photo: Christian Lambiott/ CC BY 4.0
Margaret Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher, Terence Donovan (c. 1995-6), © The Thatcher Estate
John Major: John Major speaking at ‘America, Britain and Europe: an Evolving Relationship’, Chatham House, 2011, CC BY 2.0
Tony Blair: Tony Blair, European Commission [EC] Audio Visual Service, © European Union, 2010, licenced under CC BY 4.0
Edward II: King Edward II, F.F., after unknown artist (17th C), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward III: King Edward III, unknown artist (1597-1618), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Richard II: King Richard II, unknown artist (1597-1618), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry IV: King Henry IV, unknown artist (1597-1618), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry V: King Henry V, unknown artist (late 16th or early 17th century), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry VI: King Henry VI, unknown artist (c. 1540), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward IV: King Edward IV, unknown artist (c. 1540), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward V: King Edward V, unknown artist (1597-1618), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Richard III: King Richard III, unknown artist (late 16th century), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry VII: King Henry VII, unknown artist (1505), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Henry VIII: King Henry VIII, unknown artist (c. 1542), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward VI: King Edward VI, workshop associated with ‘Master John’ (c. 1547), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Mary I: Queen Mary I, Master John (1544), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Elizabeth I: Queen Elizabeth I, unknown artist (c. 1600), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
James I: James I of England, John de Critz (c. 1605), Museo del Prado
Charles I: King Charles I, Sir Anthony van Dyck (1635-37), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Oliver Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Cooper (1656), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Richard Cromwell: Richard Cromwell, unknown artist (c. 1650-5), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Charles II: King Charles II, John Michael Wright (c. 1660-5), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
James II: King James II, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1684), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Mary II: Queen Mary II, Jan van der Vaart (c. 1692-4), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William III: King William III, Sir Peter Lely (c. 1677), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Queen Anne: Queen Anne, John Closterman (c. 1702), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George I: King George I, Sir Godfrey Kneller (1714-25), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George II: King George II, Thomas Hudson (1744), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George III: George III, Allan Ramsay (c.1761-2), © Royal Collection Trust
George IV: King George IV, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1815), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
William IV: William IV (1765-1837), Sir Martin Archer (1833-4), RCIN 404385, © Royal Collection Trust / His Majest King Charles III 2023
Queen Victoria: Queen Victoria, Alexander Bassano (1882), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edward VII: King Edward VII, Luke Fildes (1902-12), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George V: George V (c.1925), The History Trust of South Australia, Public Domain image
Edward VIII: Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII), Reginald Grenville Eves (c.1920), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
George VI: King George VI, Walter Stoneman (1938), Library of Congress, Public Domain image
Elizabeth II: Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926) on her Coronation Day (2 Jun 1953), Cecil Beaton, RCIN 2153177, © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection Trust
Commons in the Wars of the Roses: Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens, Henry Albert Payne (1910), Courtesy of UK Parliament, Heritage Collections, WOA 2593
First Elizabethan Age: Elizabeth I of England presiding over Parliament (c.1580-1600), Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith.
Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments: Trial of Laud. State 2, Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection, Public Domain image
Georgian Lords: House of Lords, Thomas Rowlandson (1809), Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain image
Victorian Commons: The House of Commons, 1833; Sir George Hayter (1833-1843), © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Contemporary History: Saturday sitting in the House of commons to debate renegotiated Brexit deal, 19 October 2019, ©House of Commons, CC BY 3.0
Georgian Elections Project: An Election Entertainment at Brentford (1769), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
James I to Restoration: Summi et supremi senaculi parlamentaris in Anglia typus, Renold Elstrack (1608), © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Commons in the Civil Wars: Platform of the Lower House of this Present Parliament, Assembled at Westminster, the thirteenth day of April, 1640. and in the 17 Yeere of his Majesties happie Raigne (c.1640); © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0