...in favour of women’s suffrage, ‘he is always betraying us’. This was a reference to the repeated collapse of attempts by Lloyd George to effect a reconciliation between the Liberal...
...Instead, a BBC announcer read sections of it during the nightly news. You have, of course, heard him delivering it, but he did not make that recording until 1949, when...
...his targets were thinly veiled - to trail new political ideas which were to come to fruition later on in the Thatcher premiership. John Redwood, MP continues to use the...
...late January, 1915, somewhere on the front lines between Béthune and Ypres the first surveyor sent out into the field was arrested as a spy on the grounds that no-one...
...an age when a new monarch typically meant a new administration. His approach to politics relied on careful management of the House of Commons and a tendency to avoid confrontation...
...Treasury compromise which led to the poster’s creation. Preparing ‘Home Publicity’ 'Keep Calm and Carry On’ was coined by the shadow Ministry of Information (MOI) at some point between 27...
...age of fourteen; he pursued this whilst studying at the Glasgow School of Art in the evenings. In 1902 Bone settled in London and became a member of the New...
...in a new way: ‘Really appreciate the efforts @WW1FO are going to capture the events of WW1 build up for a new generation on twitter‘; V cool exercise in immersive...
...a monetarist package, to others who demanded sweeping interventions on import controls and nationalisation. Between such polarised positions, a few ministers sought to defend the Keynesian-inspired orthodoxy that had dominated...
...made a confused statement about new regulations allowing citizens to travel to the West, which he said would come into effect ‘immediately’. Journalists took him at his word, the message...