...background to this significant development, from The National Archives website . And so, today, 1st August, The National Archives is releasing Prime Minister’s Office records, Cabinet Papers and Home Office...
...who sat in Parliament were members of financial elites of various sorts – either the older elite that held landed wealth and dominated the Lords and the Commons, or those...
...on design and on the development of the Arts and Crafts movement, helping to promote the idea that the design of furniture and other items for the home had as...
...rooms on the first floor. This consisted of the lofty ‘Cabinet Room’ (now known as the Grand Reception Room) with its barrel vaulted roof, the smaller square Dining Room and...
Behind every Prime Minister there are other people, 'at Power’s Elbow', never achieving the same acclaim or notoriety, yet indispensable to the very public figure they support. The British premiership...
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...I hadn’t switched the electric lights on inside the room I was reliant on the wash of light from behind me in the service corridor and just stuck my head...
...a powerful impact, not just in the United States but also in the United Kingdom, on the European continent and elsewhere? Of course, the killing of an American President is...
...speech of 18 June – he did not repeat it over the airwaves that evening. The thought simply does not seem to have occurred to him or to anyone else....
...radical on several different fronts, including welfare and pension reform, the need for significant reductions in public expenditure, and the need for further privatisation. Redwood’s memos are always clearly written...