...is therefore little in the way of a common pattern, many of the fifty-two previous occupants of Number 10 Downing Street have done plenty of worthwhile, interesting and significant things...
...significant challenges in coping with the threat posed by revolutionary France after 1789, was crucial to the development of Cabinet government From the 1790s, the discussions and decisions of the...
...power over the legislation of the country’. Before the 1911 Parliament Act tipped the constitutional balance decidedly in favour of the Commons, there were several significant occasions on which the...
...Angus Hawkins. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past: sign up for our email alerts...
...the newly formed BBC, wrote to the King in 1923 to inquire whether he would be interested in ‘delivering a message to his people’ on a significant holiday such as...
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...
...Tom Crewe. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past: sign up for our email alerts...
...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...