- The
Woolsack is the seat of the Lord
Speaker in the
House of Lords, the
Upper House of the
Parliament of the
United Kingdom.
Before 2006, it was the seat...
- The Château
Woolsack or Château de
Woolsack or The
Woolsack is a
former hunting lodge located in the
commune of
Mimizan in the
department of
Landes in...
- The
Tetbury Woolsack Races are an
annual sporting event in the
English town of Tetbury, in Gloucestershire,
where competitors must race up and down the...
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Chamber are
coloured red. The
Woolsack is at the
front of the Chamber; the
Government sit on
benches on the
right of the
Woolsack,
while members of the Opposition...
- Watson, Steven. "Figures on a
Woolsack"
History Today (Feb 1955) 5#2 pp 75–83. Watson, Steven. "Figures on a
Woolsack part 2"
History Today (Apr 1955)...
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spheroidal weathering often creates rounded boulders,
known as
corestones or
woolsack, of
relatively unweathered rock.
Spheroidal weathering is also
called onion...
- The Lord
Speaker thus
elected then
replaced the Lord
Chancellor on the
Woolsack. By
Royal Warrant on 4 July 2006, the
Queen declared that the Lord Speaker...
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royal authority, is
placed on the back of the
Woolsack. In
front of the
Woolsack is the Judges'
Woolsack, a
larger red
cushion that used to be occupied...
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material they needed.
Edward III had
commanded that his
chancellor sit on the
woolsack in
council as a
symbol of the pre-eminence of the wool trade. At the time...
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necessarily equal to the sum of its parts. For example, the 364-pound
woolsack (165 kg) had a 14-pound
allowance (6.4 kg) for the
weight of the sack and...
