Old Sarum (constituency)
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Old Sarum was from 1295 until 1832 a parliamentary constituency of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was a so-called rotten borough, with an extremely sma
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which elected two Members of Parliament. Old Sarum by John Constable, 1834.
Unreformed House of Commons
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The "unreformed House of Commons" is a name given to the House of Commons of Great Britain before it was reformed by the Reform Act 1832, the Irish Reform Act 1832, and the Scottish Reform Act 1832.
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger addresses the House of Commons on the War of the First Coalition
"House of Commons" (from The Microcosm of London, Thomas Rowlandson, 1808)
Portrait of Charles James Fox by Anton Hickel, 1794