From the Parliamentary Collections

Explore the Parliamentary collections for documents and images about the assassination of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812

• The victim: Spencer Perceval
• Letters Patent and writ
• John Bellingham
• Assassination
• Reaction of the House of Lords to the assassination
• Financial provision for Spencer Perceval's family

Explore the Parliamentary collections for documents and images about the fire which burned down Parliament in 1834

• Contemporary letter describing the 1834 fire
• Payments made relative to the Fire
• Rickman Plan
• Rickman portrait
• Tally Sticks
• Book burned in the fire
• Henry Stone Smith
• House of Commons Smoking Ban

Explore the Parliamentary collections for documents and images about Parliament's relationship with the river Thames

• Preservation of the Thames Act
• Petition of the watermen
• River Thames plan
• Plan of the area around the Palace
• River Thames Management Acts
• River Thames Purification Estimate
• Father Thames Sketch