The Exchequer: a chequered history?
...department of state formally ended in 1833. All that remains today is the honorific post of the Queen's Remembrancer, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (now part of the Treasury...
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What’s the context? 22 January 1924: Britain’s first Labour government takes office
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
Ninety years ago today, the British political mould was shattered by the election of the first Labour government. After an inconclusive election on 6 December 1923 that the ruling Conservatives...
Hung Parliament - February 1974
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Mark Dunton, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The National Archives
...40 years ago today, on 28 February 1974, a general election was being fought, amid a major economic crisis. Prime Minister Edward Heath had called a snap election, and had...
Former Prime Ministers
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Professor Kevin Theakston, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...rich heiresses: when Rosebery died in 1929, he left £1.7 million – the equivalent of nearly £60 million in today’s money. But some former Prime Ministers had money troubles, both...
Paratrooper Brian, D.M. and the future of military working dogs
...outbreak of war in 1939, the Home Office turned to a dog to locate multiple holes in a series of buried cables at a newly constructed Post Office receiving station...
Conscription and Conscientious Objection
...lived in very basic conditions. After the war, Felix composed a piece called 'Fanfare for a Challenge to Accepted Ideas', inspired by his dedication to resisting war and militarism. Today...
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
One hundred years ago today US President, Woodrow Wilson, gave his famous speech to Congress articulating the Fourteen Points and principles that he believed should be the foundation of post-war...
The woman in green who won the Khaki election
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Labour as well as the only woman to serve in the newly-formed Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament), until she left the government in protest against the Anglo-Irish treaty. Map of 1918...
The first woman of British parliament
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Parliament
...painted by John Singer Sargent in 1908. Source: http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/766112 They moved in high social circles. Nancy used these connections to steer Waldorf away from his family’s interests in newspapers, which...
The private life of Harold Macmillan
...public life – to observe different standards from those prevalent today in many circles. Macmillan perceived himself as speaking from inside the confines of the British political community, and was...