...Office had no power to control memorials ‘about its walls’ called it ‘a wretched business’. In July 1936 Sir Edwin Lutyens submitted a scheme consisting of a portrait panel set...
...Edward was the eldest son of King Aethelred (‘the Unready’) from his second marriage to Emma, the sister of Duke Richard II of Normandy. This marriage had been arranged as...
The most detailed and literary diaries of all the occupants of 10 Downing Street were those kept by Harold Macmillan and William Gladstone. There are, however, two significant differences between...
...in Blackney, Norfolk for the quay to be urgently repaired and also that the river channel should be scoured as requested. The council also authorised travel abroad by issuing passes...
...is an “Edition de Luxe” of which only 325 copies were privately published, and it was “printed on handmade unbleached Arnold linen fibre with private watermark” for Colonel W. Hall...
...but they were to cease the trade in slavery, north of the equator. Brazil declared their independence in November 1823 and Portugal eventually signed a Treaty, mediated by the British,...
...religious reforms contributed to its defeat at the 1841 election. An era of volatile politics Russell became Prime Minister when Sir Robert Peel’s Tory government fell apart in 1846. However,...
...3rd Viscount Palmerston Born 20 October 1784 Died 18 October 1865 Dates in office 1855-8, 1859-65 Political party Liberal Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...speculation in South America, and his first novel was condemned for its immaturity and crude character assassinations of society figures. After a nervous breakdown, he produced a stream of novels...
...now shut out of progressive politics and moved towards Peel’s Conservative opposition. When Peel formed a government in 1841 he made Stanley Colonial Secretary, but there were fewer excitements in...