The building that exists today was purposely built to house Parliament in ... chambers and galleries are all part of the modern Palace of Westminster. The site has been occupied since the 11th ...

Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains, is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. The site - which also comprises the small medieval Church of ...

Archaeologists believe that the 'world's oldest pyramid' might not have been built by humans. The Djoser Step pyramid is said ...

Sample tubes with earth from deep underneath Westminster are marked for further ... medieval location of the riverside. When the Palace was built in the 1800s, after many of the medieval buildings ...

‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.

Fire has broken out 45 times in the Palace of Westminster over the last decade, latest figures show, sparking warnings of a “Notre Dame inferno incubating” on the crumbling estate. Labour former ...

Small settlements were here from the beginning, but the core area really took off in the late Anglo-Saxon period with the establishment of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.

Designed by architect Sir Charles Barry, who also noted for The Palace of Westminster and Elizabeth ... Despite being built sometime in the 1800s, this beautiful abode has been renovated and ...

The ceremony took place on 15th January 1478 in St Stephen's chapel in the Palace of Westminster and the bridegroom was only five years old. But on 11th December 1964 Anne's coffin was found when the ...