...strength in the Commons, and resulted in the promotion of three future Prime Ministers: George Canning, Robert Peel and Frederick Robinson (later Viscount Goderich). The more demanding nature of business...
...became the first woman to sit in the Cabinet, as Minister of Labour, but 41 years later Margaret Thatcher was still only the fifth woman to do so (and only...
...Now for the very first time five former cabinet secretaries – Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O’Donnell will be providing new and compelling material about...
...north-western corner of the Holy Roman Empire (now part of Germany). Born in 1660, George I had considerable political experience in, and an obvious affection for, the land of his...
...complex, but also surprisingly contemporary. United States A Democratic President faced fierce Republican opposition in both domestic and foreign policy. Roosevelt’s New Deal programme of social and economic measures to...
...Dining Room, shortly after I started. Small Dining Room Number 10 We were doing a recruitment exercise for a new member of staff and I had booked the Small Dining...
...alive at the time remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. Personally, I was in a cinema in London watching the newly-released West...
...heralding a new era of security. In his speech at the signing ceremony President Truman said he believed that if NATO had been in existence in 1914 or 1939 it...
...King turned as his new premier when Grafton resigned as Prime Minister (a term North never used of himself) in January 1770. Exceptionally conscientious North was an exceptionally conscientious first...
...Even pre-Civil War, Henrietta Maria, being a French Catholic, was not a popular figure in England. However, her unpopularity reached new heights in 1642, as she was now seen as...