...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...
...Crimean War. Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia allied themselves with the Ottoman Empire against Russian expansion. In Westminster this produced an irritated impatience with Russell’s introduction of a...
...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...
...making intimacy with the Queen the summit of his social ambition. Power acted as a spur to his imagination: travelling through the Ottoman Empire in 1830, he stayed at the...
...became the first woman to sit in the Cabinet, as Minister of Labour, but 41 years later Margaret Thatcher was still only the fifth woman to do so (and only...
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...preferred figure of 5%. We can also see, from studying the documents, that Mrs Thatcher frequently underlined particular sentences or phrases which she found significant in memos - evidence of...