Westminster Hall is the oldest building on the Parliamentary estate. What makes it such an astonishing building is not simply its great size and the magnificence of its roof, but its central role in ...

If you like maps and history, then you'll love Londonist: Time Machine, our weekly newsletter about the city's past. After the Square Mile, Westminster is one of the most ancient parts of London.

Westminster Hall is the oldest building on the Parliamentary estate. It has played a central role in 900 years of British history, with the major institutions of the British state having grown up ...

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is upon you with all his vermin at his heels. Henry Fox, MP and statesman, 1705-1774 The Houses of Parliament, otherwise known as ...

"One who saw Westminster Hall by night, and the narrow lighted space of the coffin's immediate environment almost overwhelmed by the empty darkness, like a match that is struck at nightfall on a ...