...Arthur Burns. 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....
...office under Perceval before joining the Admiralty Board in June 1810. Controversial Corn Laws When Castlereagh joined Lord Liverpool’s administration in 1812, however, Robinson was promoted to Vice-President of the...
1 December 2015 marks the 90th anniversary of the formal signing of the Locarno Treaties at the Foreign Office in London. Named after the town in Switzerland where the treaties...
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...an heir. Edith was significantly younger than Edward and may have seen him as something of a father figure – but she would certainly have known that the birth of...
The most detailed and literary diaries of all the occupants of 10 Downing Street were those kept by Harold Macmillan and William Gladstone. There are, however, two significant differences between...
...State Papers Domestic Charles I Vol. 10: 1636-1637, p. 250. [2] PC 2/44, pp.104-105. [3] Ibid., p. 83; pp. 22-23. Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
...Walker offered his bloodstock at Tully in County Kildare to the British Government for the purpose of founding a National Stud. It was a significant offer; 6 stallions, 43 brood...
...but they were to cease the trade in slavery, north of the equator. Brazil declared their independence in November 1823 and Portugal eventually signed a Treaty, mediated by the British,...
...party in 1834-5. As Home Secretary after 1835 he reformed the criminal law, and as a result executions only took place for murder and high treason. He promoted the Education...