The first Prime Minister to carry out significant constitutional reform was the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an unlikely figure to be associated with constitutional changes – he was a...
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...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...
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...preferred figure of 5%. We can also see, from studying the documents, that Mrs Thatcher frequently underlined particular sentences or phrases which she found significant in memos - evidence of...
...unbreakable’. The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty On 4 April 1949, at the signing ceremony, the United States Marine Band Orchestra played a medley from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess....
...the map. Along with rapidly developing aerial reconnaissance techniques radio signals were used as beacons for the first time to synchronise sightings of observation planes over enemy positions - sophisticated...
...– or no more than the slightest movement – otherwise there would be significant loss of signal power. So maximum stability was crucial. The base rested on a 90 ft...
...deeper story of British support for liberal constitutional progress and the promotion of self-government by free peoples against perceived absolutist despotism throughout the world, whether that be through backing constitutionalists...
...most significant political figure in her journal. Wellington, ‘whom every English person ought to worship’, became an extremely close confidant of the Arbuthnots and spent a great deal of time...