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...
Ninety years ago today, the British political mould was shattered by the election of the first Labour government. After an inconclusive election on 6 December 1923 that the ruling Conservatives...
...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...
...then proceeded to South America. His move through the Spanish ranks resulted in his promotion to Governor of Chile. During his early years the involvement with a prominent local, Isabel...
Sir Robert Walpole “My Lord Bath, you and I are now as insignificant men as any in England.” Today often viewed as the first British Prime Minister, Walpole was described...
...parachutes to participate in airborne landings. Rob, a collie believed to have completed more than 20 jumps, was awarded the Dickin Medal for carrying out reconnaissance patrols in North Africa...
...but prime ministerial responses to the Great War are, in fact, crucial to how we remember today in some quite unexpected ways. 'Great War generation' For each of the 23...
...lived in very basic conditions. After the war, Felix composed a piece called 'Fanfare for a Challenge to Accepted Ideas', inspired by his dedication to resisting war and militarism. Today...
...deeper story of British support for liberal constitutional progress and the promotion of self-government by free peoples against perceived absolutist despotism throughout the world, whether that be through backing constitutionalists...
...services co-operating together closely) and ‘Combined’ (different countries working together in intimate partnership) operations of today. British campaign One aspect of the eleven month campaign (February 1915 to January 1916)...