This text offers new insight into one of Britain's most famous, celebrated and complex buildings. It places the building within a broad historical, political and cultural context.
Preface 7(1) Betty Boothroyd Introduction: Theatre of State 8(3) Christine Riding Jacqueline Riding The Place of Westminster as Palace of Varieties 11(20) David Cannadine The Staging of Ceremonies of State in the House of Lords 31(18) Henry S. Cobb The Medieval Palace of Westminster 49(20) John Goodall Ramancing the Past: Image and Theatre at the Coronation of George IV 69(12) Steven Parissien ``My Gorgeous Palace: Richard II, Restorations and Revival 81(18) Jacqueline Riding Parliaments Genius Loci: The Politics of Place after the 1834 Fire 99(14) Andrea Fredericksen The New Palace of Westminster 113(24) Alexandra Wedgwood Sir John Soane and the Late Georgian Origins of the Royal Entrance 137(12) Sean Sawyer ``We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards Our Buildings Shape Us: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Rebuilding of the House of Commons 149(14) Gavin Stamp ``New Furniture of a Suitable and Proper Character: The Working Interiors 1849-60 163(16) Dorian Church The Aura of Sacred Mystery: Thrones in the New Palace of Westminster 179(16) Christine Riding The Speakers House 195(18) Christine Riding Dorian Church Christopher Garibaldi Prince Albert and the Fine Arts Commission 213(12) Janet McLean ``God Help the Minister who Meddles in Art: History Painting in the New Palace of Westminster 225(16) William Vaughan Myth and Monarchy: Chivalric Legends for the Victorian Age 241(12) Debra N. Mancoff Sculpture and the New Palace of Westminster 253(17) Benedict Read Notes 270(9) Bibliography 279(7) Index 286
