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    The House of Lords Library is the library and information resource of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provides...
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    The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster...
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    leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The...
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    The House of Lords Act 1999 (c. 34) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament...
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  • first women in the House of Lords took their seats in 1958, forty years after women were granted the right to stand as MPs in the House of Commons. These...
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    The reform of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, has been a topic of discussion in UK politics for more than...
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    The Irish House of Lords was the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from medieval times until the end of 1800. It was also the final...
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    The House of Lords (German: Herrenhaus; Czech: Panská sněmovna; Italian: Camera dei signori; Slovene: Gosposka zbornica; Polish: Izba Panów; Romanian:...
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  • This is a list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit...
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    Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod or Lady Usher of the Black Rod. The position originates in the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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    Members of Parliament. Although Members of the House of Lords may by courtesy use the Library, the House of Lords has a separate Library. The Library is not...
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    after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building. The palace is one of the centres of political...
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  • who was librarian at the House of Lords Library from 1914 to 1922. Butler was born in Harrow, Middlesex, the second son of academic Henry Montagu Butler...
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    Speaker of the House of Lords and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Lord Great Chamberlain performs other less routine functions as custodian of the...
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    well as members of the non-elected House of Lords. In 2001, Muhammad Anwar of Warwick University wrote a paper titled "The participation of ethnic minorities...
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  • Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 (category Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed under the Parliament Act)
    supremacy of the House of Commons by limiting the legislation-blocking powers of the House of Lords (the suspensory veto). Provided the provisions of the Act...
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  • Salisbury Convention (category House of Lords)
    the House of Lords should not oppose the second or third reading of any government legislation promised in its election manifesto. The origins of the...
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  • Patrick M. Vollmer (category Library and information science biography stubs)
    professional who has been the librarian of the House of Lords Library since 2016 and director of its Library Services since 2015. Vollmer was born 18...
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    of both Houses of Parliament; the monarch customarily wears the Imperial State Crown and a Robe of State, and members of the House of Lords wear their...
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    Edmund Gosse (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    English translation of Alexandre Dumas fils Lady of the Camellias. In 1904, he became the librarian of the House of Lords Library, where he exercised...
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    2022). "BBC World Service: Soft power and funding challenges". House of Lords Library. UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2023. "Written evidence submitted...
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    Data Protection Act 2018 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2018)
    October 2017). "Data Protection Bill [HL]: Briefing for Lords Stages". House of Lords Library.  This article incorporates text published under the British...
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  • spokesperson bishops for the Church of England or as Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords. As there are 42 dioceses of the Church of England, there are 42 bishops...
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    Retrieved 3 January 2020. "House of Commons Library". UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 January 2020. "The House of Lords Library". UK Parliament. Retrieved...
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  • Prorogation in the United Kingdom (category Parliament of the United Kingdom)
    Retrieved 9 October 2006. "The Parliament Act 1949" (PDF). (103 KB), House of Lords Library Note LLN 2005/007, 16 November 2005. "Parliamentary Standard Note...
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  • Polari (redirect from Glossary of Polari)
    2022). "In Focus: LGBT+ History Month: Jez Dolan's 'Wolfenden'". House of Lords Library. Retrieved 21 June 2024. "Wolfenden by Jez Dolan". UK Parliament...
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    acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation. The House of Commons is the elected...
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  • Elizabeth Hallam Smith (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    historian and information professional who was the librarian of the House of Lords Library from 2006 to 2016. She is the first female to hold the post...
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  • either the House of Commons or House of Lords, the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act...
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    conceal that she was two years under the legal age of 18. Lords starred in pornographic films and was one of the most sought-after actresses in that industry...
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