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As dinner time approaches, we're hoping for something better than the offering for parliamentary reporters in the Commons in the 1860s: 'a bottle of whisky on tap, a loaf or two of stale bread, and a most nauseous-looking ham’. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...

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‘The status of the Press is changed indeed’: the reporters’ gallery in the nineteenth-century House of Commons Continuing our series on parliamentary buildings, Dr Kathryn Rix looks at the accommodation provided for the newspaper journalists who reported on the proceedings of the nineteenth-century House of… https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/the-status-of-the-press-is-changed-indeed-the-reporters-gallery-in-the-nineteenth-century-house-of-commons/