Parliament Week
Parliament Week is an annual national initiative that aims to build greater awareness and engagement with parliamentary democracy in the UK. Explore these themes with Culture24 events, news, features and resources from museums, archives and libraries across the UK.
Democracy for Scotland: the Museum of Edinburgh examines the referendum experience
As referendum fever rages in Scotland and hits the UK national news, the Museum of Edinburgh presents a retrospective of the two previous referendums in 1979 and 1997 with a selection of materials from its own collections and the Scottish Political Archive in Stirling.
Artists unite with charity in an auction to raise funds to support work with survivors of torture
More than 50 artists have donated works for a Freedom from Torture auction, including Antony Gormley, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Julian Opie, Stuart Temple and Edmund da Waal.
The Queen, Ronnie Kray, Robert Maxwell and George W Bush: Private Eye's First 50 Years
The Victoria and Albert Museum plays host to the unusual sound of sniggering as it celebrates the birthday of one of the UK's finest institutions in Private Eye: The First 50 Years.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Winston Churchill's War Rooms despatch box
Take a look at the despatch box Winston Churchill carried his papers in and find out why it is adorned with a sticker from Barbados in the second part of Culture24's Parliament Week special from the......
Parliament Week 2011: Jeremy McIlwaine on the Conservative Party Archive
The Conservative Party Archive man tells Culture24 about Margaret Thatcher's party political broadcasts and the posters assuring voters of a happy life under the party's rule.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Dr Richard Johns chooses a portrait of James, Duke of York
Dr Richard Johns explains the complex story behind a triumphant painting of James, Duke of York inside the Queen's House at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Parliament Week: The objects and photos from Parliament through the centuries Part II
From the coronation of George IV to the first black members of the House of Lords, here's the second part of Culture24's mini-guide to the history of Parliament.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: A porcelain figure of radical MP John Wilkes at the Buckinghamshire Museum
Will Phillips, the Collections Officer of Social History at Buckinghamshire County Museum Resource Centre, introduces a porcelain figure of John Wilkes, a radical 18th century MP who had a colourful......
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Dr Alan Borthwick chooses the 691-year-old Declaration of Arbroath
Dr Alan Borthwick of the National Records of Scotland talks about the Declaration of Arbroath and why its message still has significance today.
Parliament Week: A Cromwellian Act and Seal from the Cromwell Museum
To mark Parliament Week, John Goldsmith of the Cromwell Museum reveals two new artifacts that relate to the story of Parliamentary democracy.
