23 Feb 1669: On his 36th birthday Samuel Pepys kisses the lips of the embalmed body of Catherine de Valois at #Westminster#otd ‘I did kiss a Queen’, he remarked.
If #lindsayhoyle wasn't got at by #starmer and his whips, why then did Starmer say "thank you" to Hoyle as he fled the chamber of the #parliament in England this evening?
🧵 1/2: No #UKNews outlet is able to explain what happened in #Westminster today over the #ceasefire vote. Let me explain: #Parliament used to be a place for representatives of the people to debate & vote legislation that benefit citizens & represent their aspirations. Yes #lobbyists have always existed but overall, #MPs believed in their mission & in the importance of parliamentary rule. Today however, parliament is only a farcical theatre to boost #electioneering while obfuscating real policy
Westminster really did just give #SNP the best display of why Independence is important to them. What an utter shit show in #Westminster today. #ukpolitics
18 Feb 1651: Francis Willoughby, Governor of #Barbados & the Council of the island proclaim its independence #otd - denying the #Westminster parliament the right to tax them without representation.
They will and are doing so for anyone who does not toe the WasteMonster line. It's not just pro independence, it is anyone who does not bow and tug their forelocks.
It took a long time for Welsh and Gaelic languages to be ‘allowed' to exist as one simple example.
11 Feb 1377: As the barge of the mortally ill Edward III passes the Palace of #Westminster#otd - all of the Lords of the 'Good #Parliament' come out to cheer him as he goes by
7 Feb 1554: Ash Wednesday, Hugh Weston Dean of #Windsor celebrates Mass for Mary I at Whitehall wearing armour beneath his vestments as Wyatt's rebels enter #London#otd
Weston was given Windsor by Mary when #Westminster reverted to being a #Benedictine Abbey (BaldBoy/eebo)
4 Feb 1656: Godfrey Goodman of Ruthin, Denbighshire, bishop of #Gloucester is buried #otd in St. Margaret's #Westminster. He had died in poverty on 19 Jan 1656 (Ermell)