Government Art Collection at Number 10
...origin of the Government Art Collection (GAC). Today the GAC is responsible for acquiring and displaying works of art in over 400 British Government buildings in the UK and nearly...
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George III and his Prime Ministers
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Professor Jeremy Black, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...and his greater willingness later in his reign to adapt to the realities of parliamentary monarchy – the constitutional system we still have today. In the 1760s, both King and...
Prime Ministers in the House of Lords
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Kathryn Rix, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...title is Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium. It may today appear very strange that a member of the House of Lords could head the British government. The last peer...
We wanted to wake him up: Lloyd George and suffragette militancy
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Elizabeth Crawford, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Social history
...electoral register, you don't get a say in who runs the country and how. Register to vote today Suggested further reading J.M. McEwen (ed), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (1986) Roy...
‘Follow the money’: The Treasury
...of leading courtiers and bureaucrats – in essence, creating the first government department that we’d recognise today. A more formal commission and re-organisation by George Downing in 1667 gave permanency...
The Exchequer: a chequered history?
...department of state formally ended in 1833. All that remains today is the honorific post of the Queen's Remembrancer, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (now part of the Treasury...
We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
Modern technology means that today’s politicians remain contactable, even when on holiday. Constant access to digital communications can be a mixed blessing but, in the event of a crisis, the...
What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
75 years ago today, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back from Munich after two days of tense discussions with the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. He had reached an agreement setting...
What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
Portrait Photograph, President John F. Kennedy. White House | US National Archives Fifty years ago today, the 35thPresident of the United States of America was shot dead as his...
Hung Parliament - February 1974
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Mark Dunton, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The National Archives
...40 years ago today, on 28 February 1974, a general election was being fought, amid a major economic crisis. Prime Minister Edward Heath had called a snap election, and had...