...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
...significant in a thousand years of monarchy: the proposed change in the law regarding primogeniture, which will enable any future daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to become...
...R Gardner. 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...
...David Reynolds. 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...
...is therefore little in the way of a common pattern, many of the fifty-two previous occupants of Number 10 Downing Street have done plenty of worthwhile, interesting and significant things...
...significant challenges in coping with the threat posed by revolutionary France after 1789, was crucial to the development of Cabinet government From the 1790s, the discussions and decisions of the...
...power over the legislation of the country’. Before the 1911 Parliament Act tipped the constitutional balance decidedly in favour of the Commons, there were several significant occasions on which the...
...Angus Hawkins. 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...
...the newly formed BBC, wrote to the King in 1923 to inquire whether he would be interested in ‘delivering a message to his people’ on a significant holiday such as...
The first Prime Minister to carry out significant constitutional reform was the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was an unlikely figure to be associated with constitutional changes – he was a...