Rosemary Hill

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490 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Close Readings · London Revisited: Coffee, Satire and Bubbles · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

And gradually what was beginning to emerge.

is a two party system as we know it.

Little bit later on we will begin to have a prime minister, and Parliament itself, which had been sitting.

for a very long time since Edward the Sixth.

In the abandoned chapel of St.

Stephen in the Palace of Westminster, which of course was never intended for any such purpose, was now finally, in sixteen ninety two, fitted up by Christopher Wren to look something more like a parliament house.

He put in he was very respectful to

here and elsewhere, unusually among architects, Wren was very respectful of earlier work.

And he fitted up panelling which um

obscured but didn't damage the medieval frescoes, and he put in a gallery, and that is how the Commons looked until the fire of eighteen thirty four.

So Parliament

Had a different function now, it met more often, and it looked more like parliament.

By this time London we've been talking in past episodes about the city and Westminster.

Now it's kind of all joined up.

But there are different things going on in different places.

And what's happening in the city is really quite new.

Well throughout the whole of this series we've seen the city looking at the monarch and thinking, hm and it sometimes the loans go well.

quite often they don't go so well.

So I think, yeah, we're very familiar with this idea of the city and the crown having

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