...10; Macmillan’s ban on his grandchildren riding tricycles and bicycles in the front hall on Cabinet days captured both of these elements.[iii] Macmillan warmed to the house, recording in his...
...those of the Ministry of Works, were to be implemented between 1960-63. During these works, the Prime Minister’s living and working quarters were relocated to Admiralty House, a grand building...
...Grey had to use the pavement kerb to feel his way from Buckingham Palace to the Foreign Office. Eleven years to the day Grey was back at the Palace to...
...servants, and on occasion by civil servants exclusively. Harold Wilson’s innovation, created half a century ago, has endured because it has been sufficiently elastic. It has evolved and allowed the...
...General Election in June 2001. They had fought the election campaign under the banner of ‘a lot done and a lot more to do’ with a focus on ‘radical’ public...
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...iconic English Electric Company by the General Electric Company (GEC, not to be confused with the US-based GE) to create a giant electrical and electronic enterprise of 230,000 people which...
...Wall in 1961 gave concrete form to ideological, political and military competition between East and West. Berlin problems were a useful stick with which to beat the other side, and...
...and Nancy committed herself to welfare work. The vacant seat On his father’s death on 18 October 1919, Waldorf was immediately elevated to the House of Lords as the 2nd...
...the brink of destruction. Nelson Mandela in 1994 (US National Archives and Records Administration) A bankrupt system The apartheid system was established by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party following its electoral...