...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...
...which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan temporarily decamped to Admiralty House. The central issue that this project seeks to investigate is how the period’s ten different Prime Ministers used the building’s...
...speech... Rather, he gave it in the House of Commons, beginning at 3.40 pm and sitting down at 4.14. By contrast with some later occasions – notably his ‘finest hour’...
...Redwood used so effectively? The Policy Unit The Policy Unit was established by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in March 1974. Wilson ’felt that he needed more political and policy advice...
...under a government of a different political hue? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) made use of the Policy Unit throughout her premiership. A note written on 9 May 1979, by...
...Licences. Walpole was able to dominate government policymaking. He did so partly because of his political skills and because he held a position that Prime Ministers generally ceased to occupy...
...and motivating large numbers of men, experience which he put to good use in his new post. He inherited an organisation, the General Register Office (GRO), designed by his predecessor,...
...– but also treasures such as Domesday book, royal wills and the various chests that were used to house them. Indeed, it was an ill-judged attempt to burn superfluous wooden...
Maurice Hankey (1877-1963) deserves to be far better known than he is today as the principal architect of the Cabinet Office in modern British government. It would be wrong to...
...office, he did not use it to enrich himself) and served as one of Walpole’s senior lieutenants in the House of Commons. Following Walpole’s fall in 1742, Pelham became leader...