Administrators of the British Empire
...own affairs. Photograph of the Chapel of St Michael and St George within St Paul's Cathedral. The National Archives: CO 447/126 War and the Colonies The 1806 appointment of...
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Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...and his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, maintained this allegiance. Henry Pelham Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the...
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig 1742 to 1743)
...London – but, following a quarrel with his elder brother, Compton shifted his affections to the Whigs. He sat as MP for Eye in Suffolk from 1698 to 1710 and...
Sounds familiar? Prime Minister’s Office records and Cabinet Papers from 1985-86
...tempted to think that the files would reflect the Thatcher revolution at full steam. The Conservatives had won two general election victories (1979 and 1983) and the Miners’ strike had...
William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire (Whig, 1756-1757)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire, served as a stop-gap First Lord of the Treasury during a period of intense political crisis. He was born in 1720, the eldest son...
Air-raid casualties in the First World War
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Edgar Jones, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series
...aerial bombardment was a significant element in a new era of total warfare. Bombing campaign Air-raids over the UK during the First World War were sporadic and relatively small scale...
Harriet Arbuthnot and ‘the vortex of politics’
...George the 4th, the 1st of February, 1820. Thus begins The Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot, one of the most extraordinary documents we have on the internal dynamics of elite politics...
Simon de Montfort’s 1265 Parliament
...to him, royal officials still controlled many key castles and Henry’s loyal and dynamic queen, Eleanor of Provence, was a few miles across the sea in France. Summoning the people...
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Whig 1762-1763)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...Montagu. The match brought Bute eleven children and, eventually, a sizeable inheritance from his wife’s family. His first real political experience came with election as one of the sixteen Scottish...
What’s the Context? 4 February 1945: the Yalta Conference opens
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...element of truth and provide a useful propaganda weapon. But they distort the reality of the situation. The Cold War cannot be laid at Yalta’s door, except in the sense...