...of dealing with estates where the beneficiaries were resident in countries with whom Britain was now at war. New responsibilities, new departments The War Office and Admiralty obviously had a...
...was Paymaster of the Forces but had a difficult relationship with Newcastle, Pelham’s successor. Grenville followed his lead, acting as Pitt’s deputy in the Commons. The bonds between them were...
...audience between monarch and Prime Minister remained a fixed point of contact. At these audiences, the Queen found her second Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, a sympathetic listener to her concerns....
...part of my role this year, I am investigating the ‘Geography of Power’ at the centre of British government, and the important two-way relationship between No. 10 as a building...
...Freedom and its Results’. She wrote, ‘Between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the war there was …. a very considerable development of women’s paid...
...a new top made for the table in the shape of a lozenge.’ This alteration allowed those at the ends of the table to better participate in discussion, as well...
...His ejection from office was effectively a political coup d’état, the result of an intrigue between the War Secretary David Lloyd George – a fellow Liberal, who had served before...
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
...Labour as well as the only woman to serve in the newly-formed Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament), until she left the government in protest against the Anglo-Irish treaty. Map of 1918...
...his programme of free socialist development, toleration of dissent and the secret ballot would not affect external policy, the Prague Spring appeared an unacceptable threat to Communist solidarity. But the...