Space and Sound in the British Parliament, 1399 to the Present: Architecture, Access and Acoustics

J.P.D. Cooper is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York. Since 2013 he has been principal investigator of the AHRC-funded projects ‘St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster’ and ‘Listening to the Commons’. Richard A. Gaunt is Associate Professor in History at the University of Nottingham and the joint editor of Parliamentary History.

• 1. Architecture and Politics in the Palace of Westminster, 1399 to the Present J.P.D. Cooper and Richard A. Gaunt2. The Painted Chamber at Westminster and the Openings of Parliament, 1399 – 1484 Jennifer Caddick3. The Elizabethan House of Commons and St Stephen’s Chapel Westminster J.P.D. Cooper4. The Sound of Debate in Georgian England: Auralizing the House of Commons Catriona Cooper5. Ventilating the Commons, Heating the Lords, 1701-1834 Elizabeth Hallam-Smith6. A sense of crowd and urgency’? Atmosphere and inconvenience in the chamber of the old House of Commons Paul Seaward7. Parliament as viewed through a woman’s eyes: gender and space in the nineteenth-century Commons Sarah Richardson8. St Stephen’s in war and peace: civil defence and the location of Parliament, 1938-51 Miles Taylor9. The Palace of Westminster: Another Window of Opportunity? Leanne-Marie CotterIndex