...Cabinet despatched the Minister of Food to Washington to plead for extra wheat supplies, to avert famine in South Africa and India, and starvation in the British Zone of Germany....
...in the late 1970s many West Indians felt it inappropriate to describe people born in Britain as ‘West Indian’ 1980s: slow progress In the end, the 1981 Census didn’t include...
...and the India Office. By the time Scott was building his reputation as a geographer and explorer in the early twentieth century, the ‘Scramble for Africa’ and continuing naval dominance...
...on India, against a backdrop of inter-communal rioting, following the announcement in February that Britain would transfer power to an Indian government no later than June 1948. Problems remained in...
...1853 session the Whig Sir Charles Wood, as President of the Board of Control, passed the India Act, amending, though falling short of overhauling, the government of the sub-continent, and...
...Berlin in 1878. His strong anti-Russian policy in the East, and the passage of the Empress of India Act in 1876, pleased Queen Victoria, who irritated the Liberal opposition by...
...office under Perceval before joining the Admiralty Board in June 1810. Controversial Corn Laws When Castlereagh joined Lord Liverpool’s administration in 1812, however, Robinson was promoted to Vice-President of the...
...forced upon him, and in summer 1783 let it be known that he would welcome opposition to the ministry’s bill to reform the East India Company; its parliamentary defeat gave...
...India and Ireland with mixed results. It was partly at Pitt’s prompting that William Wilberforce took up the issue of the slave trade. Among his most striking initiatives were financial...
...the American War of Independence meant that it soon rose by £75 million. Taxing issues overseas Such talents, along with significant changes in the administration of India, Ireland and Canada,...