The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston

In 1850, The House of Lords gathered to condemn the British Government's use of a blockade to force reparations from Greece. Their intervention wasn't warmly received, as this extract from the Portsmouth Telegraph shows. First published on Mon, 27 Feb 2017 as The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston. To find out more visit The Open University's Openlearn website. Copyright-Free 2017