Each month No 10 invites a professional historian to contribute a short article to this series.
...Macmillan, 2003, 2011) Peter Catterall, ‘The Prime Minister and his Trollope: Reading Harold Macmillan’s Reading’ Cercles occasional paper 1, (2004) Harold Macmillan, Memoirs 6v (London: Macmillan, 1966-73) Harold Macmillan, War...
Frederick John Robinson was the younger son of the 2nd Baron Grantham, and was raised mainly by his mother, the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, after his father died when he was three years old. He was educated …
...who was executed for high treason in 1803 after being accused of plotting both the seizure of the Tower of London and Bank of England and the assassination of George...
William Wyndham Grenville was born on 24 October 1759 in Buckinghamshire, the youngest son of an earlier Prime Minister, George Grenville, and cousin of a future one, William Pitt. He...
...1801 over the issue of Catholic Emancipation, both Pitt and George III identified Addington as the obvious successor. In office he declared the pursuit of peace as his government’s priority,...
William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later 1st Earl of Chatham and himself Prime Minister. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge at the age …
...of you who are willing to share it. Her Majesty the Queen at the naming ceremony of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the UK's latest aircraft carrier The Queen’s relationship with her...
...to aide-de-camp to George III. In the same year he became MP for Wycombe, and was elected to the Irish Parliament the following year. Ambitious and combative In May 1761...
...the American War of Independence meant that it soon rose by £75 million. Taxing issues overseas Such talents, along with significant changes in the administration of India, Ireland and Canada,...
...the death of his father in 1741 and his paternal uncle in 1747 made him heir to his grandfather, the second Duke, Lord Chamberlain to George II. His grandfather was...