Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
21 Dec 1952
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3168112.2
Summary
Newspaper cutting with 'SUNDAY TIMES 21 DEC. 1952.' handwritten in pencil in the top left corner, believed to be William Jnrs. writing. The article reads 'Bowing to the Mace SIR,-Doubtless Captain Pilking-ton has some authority un-known to me for saying that when the House of Commons met in St. Stephen's Chapel a crucifix stood above the Speaker's Chair. None is shown in the picture of the House of Commons in 1624, said by Professor Neale to be "probably the earliest picture of the House" and reproduced in his "Elizabethan House of Commons.".....' . On the reverse several articles cut through the middle leaving part articles '....MAS LEAVE ....LL, .....y Times YORK, Saturday. ....are killed when an Air .....r with 134 persons on ....fter being airborne at.....'. The cutting is kept in the book 'The earlier Tudors, 1485-1558' by John Duncan Mackie (b.1887) (record 3168112). Sir John Ernest Neale FBA, (7 December 1890 in Liverpool – 2 September 1975) was an English historian who specialised in Elizabethan and Parliamentary history. From 1927 to 1956, he was the Astor Professor of English History at University College London. Neale was the leading Elizabethan historian of his generation. His painstaking research uncovered the political power of the gentry in The Elizabethan House of Commons (1949), whilst his 1948 Raleigh Lecture on ‘The Elizabethan political scene’ greatly expanded our knowledge of the politics of the reign. The two volumes on Elizabeth I and her Parliaments (1953 and 1957) explored the relationship between the Queen and her Parliaments.