St Agnes's Eve 20 January
This was the day on which girls and unmarried women who wished to dream of their future husbands would perform certain rituals before going to bed. These included transferring pins one by one from a pincushion to their sleeve whilst reciting the Lord's Prayer, or abstaining from food and drink all day, walking backwards up the stairs to bed, and eating a portion of dumb cake ( previously prepared with a group of friends in total silence and often containing an unpleasantly large portion of salt) before lying down to sleep.
First Parliament
20 January 1265
The first English Parliament called by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester in the reign of King Henry III, met in the hall at Westminster on 20 January 1265.
Although councils of great landholders had been held earlier, this was the first in which the Commons were represented; there being present two knights from each country and two citizens for each borough. Ever since the Commons have had their share in matters of state.
What does the word Parliament mean?
The word Parliament means an event arranged to talk and discuss things, from the French word "parler".
Parliament Today
The two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) are based at Houses of Parliament (also known as the Palace of Westminster), in London.
This was the day on which girls and unmarried women who wished to dream of their future husbands would perform certain rituals before going to bed. These included transferring pins one by one from a pincushion to their sleeve whilst reciting the Lord's Prayer, or abstaining from food and drink all day, walking backwards up the stairs to bed, and eating a portion of dumb cake ( previously prepared with a group of friends in total silence and often containing an unpleasantly large portion of salt) before lying down to sleep.
First Parliament
20 January 1265
The first English Parliament called by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester in the reign of King Henry III, met in the hall at Westminster on 20 January 1265.
Although councils of great landholders had been held earlier, this was the first in which the Commons were represented; there being present two knights from each country and two citizens for each borough. Ever since the Commons have had their share in matters of state.
What does the word Parliament mean?
The word Parliament means an event arranged to talk and discuss things, from the French word "parler".
Parliament Today
The two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) are based at Houses of Parliament (also known as the Palace of Westminster), in London.
Today was born Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968),a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television.
ReplyDeleteCurrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1878. His acting career began on the stage. He and his wife, Maude Courtney (1884–1959), did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Magi, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator.
He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore.
Later in life he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He had been a longtime collector of the works of Robert Burns.
Olivia Hallinan, born on this day in 1984, is an English actress best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford and also as Kim in the critically acclaimed Sugar Rush. Hallinan has appeared in over 100 productions since the age of seven. Her first professional role was playing alongside Cilla Black in a 1991 production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Since then, she has in theatre, radio, film and on television shows including The Bill, Holby City, My Family, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde and Granada TV's, Girls in Love.
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