Although some of the old palace remained, by 1835 there was a general consensus that the opportunity for a brand new building was too good to miss. A Royal Commission was set up, and an open ...

Sheppard, Edgar; Whitehall. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

April 6 marks the 119th anniversary of the Palace Livery Stable Fire in the heart of Westminster. The blaze broke out beside the Westminster Fire and Hose Co. No.1, which was located at 66 E. Main ...

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London on Saturday calling for an end to the war in Gaza, amid ...

The Palace of Westminster could be destroyed by fire without urgent action, a peer has warned. Lord Peter Hain made his grim assessment after it was revealed that 45 fires broke out throughout the ...

At the top of Westminster Abbey’s northwest tower, Lee Robinson welcomes a new morning in a 1,000-year-old history by performing one of the building’s quieter rituals. “We do this at 7 in ...