...hope of instigating legal action against the WSPU leaders. February 1913 marked a new stage in the women’s suffrage campaign for, as Mrs Pankhurst threatened in her Cardiff speech, the...
...Instead, a BBC announcer read sections of it during the nightly news. You have, of course, heard him delivering it, but he did not make that recording until 1949, when...
...his targets were thinly veiled - to trail new political ideas which were to come to fruition later on in the Thatcher premiership. John Redwood, MP continues to use the...
...the backdrop of new civilian responsibilities – producing maps for land valuation and tax purposes – and the Edwardian love of exploration fuelling the growth in sales of leisure maps-...
...Prime Minister (1975) Vernon Bogdanor, From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair (2000) Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since...
...issue of official news and censorship). It was only after the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) was asked to produce a secret report on foreign propaganda policy in...
...in a new way: ‘Really appreciate the efforts @WW1FO are going to capture the events of WW1 build up for a new generation on twitter‘; V cool exercise in immersive...
...‘The Prime Minister’s statement was an important new factor, both because it reflected his own judgement of the situation and because the consequences for the party and for the country...
...made a confused statement about new regulations allowing citizens to travel to the West, which he said would come into effect ‘immediately’. Journalists took him at his word, the message...
...his desire to replace Walpole with Compton when he succeeded to the throne. Thus, on receiving news of his father’s death from Walpole in June 1727, the new King made...