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0065 - Magna Carta
0100 - 'The Death of Nelson' by Daniel Maclise
0105 - Hospitality - The Admission of Sir Tristram to the Fellowship of the
          Round Table
0106 - Religion - The Vision of Sir Galahad and his Company
0109 - Mercy - Sir Gawaine swearing to be merciful and 'never be against Ladies'
0112 - Generosity - King Arthur unhorsed spared by Sir Launcelot
0114 - Courtesy - Sir Tristram harping to La Beale Isoud
0118 - Prince Albert (1819-1861)
0119 - Queen Victoria (b.1819 r.1837-1901)
0138 - George V (b.1865 r.1910-1936)
0139 - Edward VII (b. 1841 r. 1901-1910)
0140 - Queen Adelaide (1792-1849)
0141 - Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)
0142 - Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
0143 - George III (b.1738 r.1760-1820)
0144 - William IV (b.1765 r.1830-1837)
0145 - Queen Mary (1867-1953)
0146 - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-present)
0147 - George VI (b.1895 r.1936-1952)
0148 - George I (b.1660 r.1714-1727)
0149 - George II (b.1683 r.1727-1760)
0150 - Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926 r.1952-present)
0151 - Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (1921-present)
0152 - Queen Caroline (1683-1737)
0153 - Fireplace
0154 - Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852)
0157 - Queen Victoria (b.1819 r.1837-1901)
0158 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
          Tory Prime Minister 1828-1830
0164 - Erasmus and Thomas More visit the children of Henry VII at Greenwich
0165 - John Cabot and his sons receiving a charter from Henry VII to
          search for new lands
0166 - Choosing of the Lancastrian and Yorkist Roses
0167 - Entry of Queen Mary I and Princess Elizabeth into London after the death
          of Edward VI
0168 - Latimer preaches before Edward VI at St Paul's Cross
0169 - Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon appearing before Cardinal Wolsey and
          the Papal Legates at Blackfriars
0170 - Charles II assisted in his escape by Jane Lane after the Battle of Worcester
0173 - The Lords and Commons presenting the crown to William and Mary in
          the Banqueting House
0174 - The acquittal of the Seven Bishops
0175 - General Monck declaring for a free Parliament
0176 - The Execution of the Marquis of Montrose
0177 - The landing of Charles II at Dover
0178 - Griselda's first Trial of Patience, from The Canterbury Tales
0179 - The Red Cross Knight overcomes the dragon, from The Faerie Queene
0180 - King Lear disinherits Cordelia, from King Lear
0181 - Satan touched by Ithuriel's spear while whispering evil thoughts into the
          ear of Eve, from Paradise Lost
0182 - St Cecilia, from A Song for St Cecilia's Day
0183 - Personification of the Thames and of English rivers, from Windsor Forest
0184 - Death of Marmion, from Marmion
0185 - Death of Lara, from Lara
0186 - The Commons Petitioning to Queen Elizabeth
0187 - The English people reading Wycliffe's Bible
0189 - Richard I leaving England for The Crusades
0192 - Sir Thomas Roe at the Court of Ajmir
0193 - Queen Elizabeth commissions Raleigh to sail for America
0194 - Sir Thomas More refusing to grant Wolsey a subsidy
0195 - Charles I raising his standard at Nottingham
0196 - Basing House, seat of the Marquess of Winchester, defended against
          the Parliamentary Army
0197 - The expulsion of the Fellows of Oxford Colleges for refusing to sign
          the Covenant to extirpate Popery
0198 - Burial of Charles I at Windsor Castle in snowstorm
0199 - Speaker Lenthall asserting the privileges of the House of Commons
          against Charles I, who had entered the house to seize five Members
0200 - The train bands leaving London to relieve the siege of Gloucester
0201 - The embarkation of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delft Haven
0202 - Lord Russell taking leave of his wife before going down to execution for
          complicity in the Rye House Plot
0203 - The Irish 'Home Rule' Debate
0204 - The Judgement of Daniel
0205 - Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law to the Israelites
0206 - The Spirit of Religion
0209 - The Spirit of Justice
0211 - The Spirit of Chivalry
0229 - James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)
          Labour Prime Minister 1924, 1929-1935
0231 - Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)
0240 - Richard I (b.1157 r.1189-1199)
0242 - Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (1902-1982)
0244 - James Keir Hardie (1856-1915)
0246 - Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
0252 - The Law Courts of Westminster Hall
0255 - Ceremonies within Westminster Hall
0278 - Elizabeth of York (1465-1503)
0279 - Anne Boleyn (1507-1536)
0280 - Francis II of France (b.1544 r.1559-1560)
0281 - Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502)
0282 - Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)
0283 - Henry VIII (b.1491 r.1509-1547)
0284 - Jane Seymour (1509-1537)
0285 - Margaret Tudor (1489-1541)
0286 - Catherine Howard (1521-1542)
0287 - Catherine Parr (1512-1548)
0288 - Edward VI (b.1537 r.1547-1553)
0289 - Mary I (b1516 r.1553-1558)
0290 - Henry VII (b.1457 r.1485-1509)
0291 - Elizabeth I (b. 1533 r.1558-1603)
0292 - Anne of Cleves (1515-1557)
0293 - James IV of Scotland (b.1473 r.1488-1513)
0294 - Philip II of Spain (b.1527 r.1556-1598)
0295 - Louis XII (b.1462 r.1498-1515)
0296 - Mary Tudor (1496-1533)
0297 - Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545)
0298 - Frances Brandon, The Marchioness of Dorset (1517-1559)
0299 - Lady Jane Grey (b.1537 r.1553 d.1554)
0300 - Lord Guildford Dudley (c.1535-1554)
0301 - Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (1489-1557)
0302 - James V of Scotland (b.1512 r.1513-1542)
0303 - Mary de Guise (1515-1560)
0304 - Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
0305 - Lord Henry Darnley (1545-1567)
0306 - Windows
0320 - Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1955-1957
0324 - The Burial of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey
0325 - King Alfred inciting the Saxons to repel the Danes
0327 - Statues of Kings on South Wall
0331 - Statues of Kings on East Wall
0338 - Sir Galahad's soul borne to Heaven
0339 - Sir Galahad imprisoned by the Tyrant
0340 - Sir Galahad and Sir Percival and Sir Bors
0341 - Sir Galahad receives the sword with the strange girdels
0342 - Sir Galahad brought unto the Siege Perilous
0343 - Sir Launcelot leaving Dame Elaine
0344 - King Arthur carried in a barge to Avillon attended by Queens
0345 - Sir Mordred slaine and King Arthur wounded to death
0346 - The Misadventure of the Adder: Beginning of the Battaile
0347 - The Knights of the Round Table vowing to seek the Sangreal
0348 - King Arthur conquering the marvailous Gyant
0349 - King Arthur wedded to Guenever
0350 - How King Arthur gate his Sword Excalibur
0351 - The Battaile with King Lot
0352 - Arthur Crowned King
0353 - Arthur recognised as King
0354 - Arthur delivered unto Merlin
0355 - The Birth of King Arthur in the Castle of Tintagelle
0356 - Alfred the Great (b.849 r.871-899)
0357 - Queen Anne (b.1665 r.1702-1714)
0358 - Edward III (b.1312 r.1327-1377)
0359 - Elizabeth I (b.1533 r.1558-1603)
0360 - Henry V (b.1387 r.1413-1422)
0361 - Richard I (b.1157 r.1189-1199)
0362 - William I The Conqueror (b.1028 r.1066-1087)
0363 - William III of Orange (b.1650 r.1689-1702)
0364 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
          Coalition Prime Minister 1852-1855
0365 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1868, 1874-1880
0366 - William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
          Whig Prime Minister 1766-1767
0367 - Edward G. G. Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868
0368 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845)
          Whig Prime Minister 1830-1834
0369 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (1730-1782)
          Whig Prime Minister 1765-1766, 1782
0370 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929)
          Liberal Prime Minister 1894-1895
0372 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
          Tory Prime Minister 1828-1830
0374 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844)
          Tory Prime Minister 1801-1804
0375 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount of Palmerston (1784-1865)
          Liberal Prime Minister 1855-1858, 1859-1865
0376 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis Salisbury (1830-1903)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895
0377 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834)
          Whig Prime Minister 1806-1807
0378 - Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel (1903-1996)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1963-1964
0379 - Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828)
          Tory Prime Minister 1812-1827
0381 - Saint Edward the Confessor
0382 - Saint Edward the Martyr
0383 - Saint Margaret
0384 - Saint Edmund
0385 - Saint Etheldreda
0386 - Saint Oswald
0390 - St George and the Dragon
0410 - St David for Wales
0411 - St Patrick for Ireland
0412 - St Andrew of Scotland
0418 - The last sleep of Argyll
0419 - Alice Lisle concealing fugitives after Sedgemoor
0425 - Edward I (b.1239 r.1272-1307)
0426 - Eleanor of Castile (1246-1290)
0427 - Edward II (b.1284 r.1307-1327)
0428 - Isabella of France (1292-1358)
0429 - Henry III (b.1207 r.1216-1272)
0430 - Eleanor of Provence (1222-1291)
0431 - Isabella of France (1389-1410)
0432 - Henry IV (b.1366 r.1399-1413)
0433 - Edward III (b. 1312 r. 1327-1377)
0434 - Richard II (b.1367 r.1377-1399)
0435 - Anne of Bohemia (1366-1394)
0436 - Philippa of Hainaut (1314-1369)
0437 - Joan of Navarre (1370-1437)
0438 - Henry V (b.1387 r.1413-1422)
0439 - Katherine of France (1401-1437)
0440 - Henry VI (b.1421 r.1422-1461, 1470-1471)
0441 - Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482)
0442 - Edward IV (b.1442 r.1461-1470, 1471-1483)
0443 - Elizabeth Woodville (1434-1492)
0444 - Edward V (b.1470 r.1483)
0445 - Richard III (b.1452 r.1483-1485)
0446 - Anne of Warwick (1456-1485)
0447 - Henry VII (b. 1457 r. 1485-1509)
0448 - Elizabeth of York (1465-1503)
0449 - Henry VIII (b. 1491 r. 1509-1547)
0450 - Anne Boleyn (1507-1536)
0451 - Edward VI (b. 1537 r.1547-1553)
0452 - Mary I (b. 1516 r. 1553-1558)
0453 - Elizabeth I (b. 1533 r. 1558-1603)
0454 - James I of England, James VI of Scotland (b.1566 r.1603-1625)
0455 - Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)
0456 - Charles I (b.1600 r.1625-1649)
0457 - Henrietta Maria (1609-1669)
0458 - Charles II (b.1630 r.1660-1685)
0459 - James II (b.1633 r.1685-1688 d.1701)
0460 - Anne Hyde (1637-1671)
0461 - William III (b. 1650 r. 1689-1702)
0462 - Mary II (b. 1662 r. 1689-1694)
0463 - Anne (b. 1665 r. 1702-1714)
0464 - George I (b.1660 r.1714-1727)
0465 - Sophia Dorothea (1666-1726)
0466 - George II (b.1683 r.1727-1760)
0467 - Queen Caroline (1683-1737)
0468 - George III (b.1738 r.1760-1820)
0469 - Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)
0470 - George IV (b. 1762 r. 1820-1830)
0471 - William IV (b.1765 r.1830-1837)
0472 - Queen Adelaide (1792-1849)
0486 - Baptistry
0487 - The Brass Gates
0491 - Saint Peter
0492 - Saint Stephen
0498 - The Parliamentary Union of England and Scotland
0500 - King John assents to Magna Carta
0502 - King Alfred's Longships defeat the Danes
0503 - Candelabra
0512 - The Throne
0520 - Statues of Magna Carta Barons
0537 - Floor Tiles
0547 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1868, 1874-1880
0548 - David Lloyd George, 1st Earl of Dwyfor (1863-1945)
          Coalition Prime Minister 1916-1922
0549 - The Archway into the Commons Chamber
0550 - George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl of Granville (1815-1891)
0551 - Statues of Medieval Kings
0558 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
          Coalition Prime Minister 1940-1945
0559 - Clement Attlee (1883-1967)
          Labour Prime Minister 1945-1951
0560 - Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford (1852-1928)
          Liberal Prime Minister 1908-1916
0561 - Edward III conferring the Order of the Garter on the Black Prince
0562 - The Baptism of King Ethelbert
0563 - Prince Henry admitting the authority of Judge Gascoigne
0564 - Minton Tiles
0565 - Ceiling
0566 - Coats of Arms
0567 - Archway to the Lords Chamber
0568 - Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham (1778-1868)
0569 - William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
          Liberal Prime Minister 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894
0570 - Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887)
0571 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston (1792-1878)
          Whig Prime Minister 1846-1851, 1865-1866
0575 - Ceiling
0576 - Royal Arms
0577 - Ceiling
0578 - George IV (b. 1762 r. 1820-1830)
0579 - Ceiling
0580 - John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902)
0581 - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900)
0582 - The Throne
0584 - The Field of the Cloth of Gold
0585 - The Visit of Emperor Charles V to Henry VIII
0586 - The escape of Mary, Queen of Scots, from Loch Leven Castle
0587 - The murder of Rizzio
0589 - Mary, Queen of Scots, leaving France
0590 - Elizabeth knighting Francis Drake
0591 - Sir Walter Raleigh spreading his cloak for Elizabeth I
0592 - The Death of Sir Philip Sidney
0593 - Edward VI granting a charter to Christ's Hospital
0594 - Lady Jane Grey at her studies
0595 - Sebastian Cabot visiting Henry VII
0596 - Catherine of Aragon pleading
0597 - Ceiling
0598 - Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914)
0600 - Ceiling
0601 - Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
0602 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793)
0603 - John Somers (1651-1716)
0604 - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
0605 - Henry Grattan (1746-1820)
0606 - Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930)
          Conservative Prime Minister 1902-1905
0607 - John Bright (1811-1889)
0608 - Sir William Harcourt (1827-1904)
0610 - John Hampden (1594-1643)
0611 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
0612 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (1610-1643)
0613 - Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860)
0614 - Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
0616 - Speaker's Chair
0617 - William Henry Smith (1825-1891)
0618 - Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-1895)
0619 - William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806)
          Tory Prime Minister 1783-1801, 1804-1906
0620 - William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
          Whig Prime Minister 1766-1767
0621 - Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745)
          Whig Prime Minister 1721-1742
0622 - John Selden (1584-1654)
0624 - Various Busts
0631 - Queen Victoria with Justice and Clemency
0632 - The Mace
0634 - John (b. 1167 r.1199-1216)
0635 - Berengaria of Navarre (1164-1230)
0636 - Richard I (b.1157 r.1189-1199)
0637 - Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)
0638 - Henry II (b.1133 r.1154-1189)
0639 - Matilda of Boulogne (1103-1151)
0640 - Matilda (Maud) of Flanders (1028-1083)
0641 - William I The Conqueror (b.1028 r.1066-1087)
0642 - William II (b.1056 r.1087-1100)
0643 - Henry I Beauclerc (b.1069 r.1100-1135)
0644 - Matilda of Scotland (1080-1118)
0645 - King Stephen (b.1097 r.1135-1154)
0646 - Falkland's broken Sword and Spur
0647 - 'The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher' by Daniel Maclise
0648 - 'Home Rule Debate in the House of Lords, 9 September 1893'
0663 - The Lord Chancellor's Woolsack
0666 - The Armada Tapestries
0670 - Wallpaper
0673 - String Course
0681 - The bomb explosion in Westminster Hall
0684 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964)
0688 - Lower Waiting Hall
0693 - The Great Fire of 1834
0697 - Wallpaper
0699 - Fireplace
0719 - Decorative angels in the Crypt
0721 - Chandelier
0722 - Chandelier
0723 - A committee in action
0727 - Division Desks
0732 - Model of the Old Palace of Westminster
0772 - The Terrace
0782 - Westminster Hall
0792 - Westminster Hall - Famous State Trials
0796 - Barry and Pugin: Architect and Designer
0843 - Women in Parliament
0844 - Hammerbeam Roof
0847 - Pugin's 'trial chairs'
0848 - House of Commons Chair
0852 - Table
0853 - X-frame chair
0855 - 'The Terrace' by Milly Childers
0857 - Octagonal Table
0870 - The Clock Tower
0884 - Windows
0885 - Windows
0886 - Clocks
0887 - Wallpaper
0889 - The Great Seal of England
0890 - Stained Glass
0891 - Windows
0892 - Seats of the Doorkeepers
0895 - Fireplace
0896 - Black Prince Window
0897 - Stained Glass Windows
0898 - Edward III commanding the rebuilding of St Stephen's Chapel
0899 - St.Stephen with Edward the Confessor and King Stephen
0900 - Floor Tiles
0902 - Emily Wilding-Davison
0903 - The Burghers of Calais
0904 - Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
0905 - Knife Edge Two Piece
0907 - Friezes below galleries
0908 - Arthurian
0911 - Windows - East side
0912 - Clock
0913 - Windows
0915 - Wooden Model of the Palace
0918 - Historical Documents
0919 - Alcove with glass display cabinet
0920 - Wallpaper
0921 - Shield of Airey Neave
0924 - The Lord Chancellor's Mace and Purse
0928 - Bar of the House
0932 - Coat of Arms
0933 - Wallpaper
0934 - Wallpaper
0935 - Windows
0937 - Stained Glass Windows
0940 - House of Lords Chair
0941 - Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
0944 - Shields beneath Galleries (South End)
0945 - Historical Documents in Cabinet
0946 - Plaque commemorating Edward VII
0947 - Plaque commemorating George V
0948 - Plaque commemorating George VI
0949 - Plaque commemorating Queen Mary
0950 - Plaque commemorating William Gladstone
0956 - Plaque commemorating Winston Churchill
0957 - Vaulted Ceiling with Bosses
0959 - Floor Tiles
0960 - George V (b.1865 r.1910-1936)
0961 - Lions (Royal Entrance)
0962 - Lions (Royal Entrance)
0963 - Lion and Unicorn (St Stephen's)
0965 - The Death of John of Gaunt
0967 - Brass Wall Plaque
0968 - Silver Jubilee Fountain
0969 - Big Ben
0970 - William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
          Whig Prime Minister 1766-1767
0971 - The Westminster Clock
0978 - Octagonal Tables in the bay windows
0979 - Government Benches
0980 - Opposition Benches
0981 - Message Board
0982 - Despatch Boxes
0983 - The Serjeant at Arms
0986 - The Speaker
0992 - The State Opening of Parliament
0995 - The Lord Chancellor
1103 - The Victoria Tower
1111 - History of the Palace of Westminster
1121 - The Gunpowder Plot
1189 - Ceiling
1231 - Entrance Doors
1232 - Entrance Doors
1233 - Floor Tiles
1236 - Floor Tiles
1237 - The Jewel Tower
1238 - Latin Inscriptions in Stone
1239 - Letters Board
1240 - Desk in Window
1241 - Representative shields
1242 - Minton Floor Tiles
1249 - War Memorial
1251 - Shields beneath the gallery
1259 - The British Yard and Pound
1500 - Royal Family Trees