In 1798 echoes would have made the House of Commons chamber sound more like an opera house
in Britain’s House of Commons is not always essential to get things done. One of the most influential and famous speeches was made there 230 years ago next month, when William Wilberforce denounced slavery and kick-started the abolitionist movement. Yet a new study suggests manyCatriona Cooper, a digital archaeologist at the University of York, used a computer model to recreate the acoustics of the 18th-century Commons, which was housed in the former St Stephen’s Chapel.
It burned down in 1834, but the acoustics of the modern House of Commons remain notoriously poor, and that’s not all down to the braying and heckles. High ceilings and stripped-down furnishings encourage echoes. Blame Winston Churchill for some of that. After the Commons was destroyed by German bombs in 1941, he ignored suggestions for a design that was more fit-for-purpose and insisted it be rebuilt faithful to its previous “intimate and conversational” style.
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