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Lord O'Donnell and Coalition Government

Posted by: Prime Minister's Office Digital Communications, Posted on: 29 July 2013 - Categories: Cabinet Confidential: interviews with cabinet secretaries, Cabinet Secretaries

...the Prime Minister, John Major. He was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service between 2005 and 2011 during the Premierships of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David...

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‘Follow the money’: The Treasury

Posted by: Nick Barratt, Posted on: 17 July 2013 - Categories: Finance and economics, The National Archives
HM Treasury

As ‘Deepthroat’ instructed Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward during Watergate, ‘follow the money’ – and this sage advice applies to historians looking for material reflective of all aspects of British, indeed international, history from the 17th century onwards. The archives …

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Lord Turnbull: 2002 - 2005

Posted by: Prime Minister's Office Digital Communications, Posted on: 11 July 2013 - Categories: Cabinet Confidential: interviews with cabinet secretaries, Civil service

...this interview Lord Turnbull talks to Lord Hennessy about his experiences in helping 'run the show'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHVGfq5I5tM Former Cabinet Secretaries View the photos of other former Cabinet Secretaries in our...

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'Marginalia' in the Prime Minister's Office records

Posted by: Mark Dunton, Posted on: 10 July 2013 - Categories: Prime Ministers and No. 10, The National Archives
Notes from Lady Thatcher's personal papers

Are you a scribbler? Do you regularly commit your thoughts by putting pen to paper? Or does that sound a ridiculously old fashioned notion in this age of social media? On the other hand, perhaps you keep a handwritten diary, …

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We wanted to wake him up: Lloyd George and suffragette militancy

Posted by: Elizabeth Crawford, Posted on: 4 July 2013 - Categories: No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Social history

On 20 February 1913 The Times reported: ‘An attempt was made yesterday morning to blow up a house which is being built for Mr Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf...

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