The UK Parliament has two Houses that work on behalf of UK citizens to check and challenge the work of Government, make and shape effective laws, and debate/make decisions on the big issues of the day ...

Today, the right to fair and free elections is almost taken for granted. However, many of the rights we have today as voters - including the right to a secret ballot and for elections to be duly ...

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In the sixteenth century many people found themselves on the wrong side of the religious divide. Protestants in Catholic countries and Catholics in Protestant countries could be seen as heretics or ...

Robert Catesby was born around 1572 in Warwickshire to Roman Catholic parents with close links to many other local Catholic families. He was charismatic and made friends easily - many of whom remained ...

During the Reformation in the 16th century Protestants across Europe demanded the reform of the doctrine and government of the Roman Catholic Church. They questioned its traditional teachings and ...

Parliamentary procedure regulates the proceedings of the House and can be divided up into four main sections. 1. Practice which is the general understanding established over the centuries and does not ...

Parliament met in January 1606 and passed the Thanksgiving Act. This made services and sermons commemorating the plot a regular annual feature each 5 November. Thousands of sermons were delivered on ...

Robert Keyes was the son of a Protestant clergyman though his mother came from a Lincolnshire Catholic family, the Tyrwhitts. Through his wife he was connected to Ambrose Rookwood and was associated ...

John Wright was born in 1568 and his brother Christopher Wright probably two years later in 1570. Both of them went to St Peter's School in York, which Guy Fawkes also attended. The Wrights' sister, ...

Disappointed by the failure of James I's peace treaty negotiations with Spain to improve their position, a handful of young Catholic gentlemen from the Midlands, some of whom had been involved in ...

This page lists a selection of key dates in the development of the European Union, from its initial concept after the Second World War to the present, and in the UK's relationship with the EU. Ten ...