...important parts of my role has been learning about the records we hold in the Archive, and helping researchers find the most useful records for them. So, in a new...
...House of Lords in 1966 and become Baron Stow Hill. Frank Soskice’s father, David Soskice, was a Russian journalist and activist during Tsarist Russia who later moved to England and...
...choices. Political satire was at its height as Lloyd George rose to power. Newspapers, such as Max Beaverbrook’s Daily Express, embraced the trend publishing acerbic cartoons and lampoons. Controversy over...
...become an adventurer himself, and led expeditions to Malaysia and Canada. Shackleton joined the RAF during World War Two, becoming a Wing Commander in the Coastal Command. However, it was...
...chair the Labour Party Conference. The conference was held in Llandudno, North Wales. This newspaper article covers the conference, including Lawrence’s opening address speech. Newspaper cutting featuring Susan Lawrence as...
...The De Montfort Project is an outreach project run by the Parliamentary Archives as a strand within Parliament’s 2015 programme. Inspired by the 750th anniversary of the meeting of the...
...Sir Rowland Blades MP restored matters by formulating a regular fixture list challenging the likes of Woolwich Garrison and The Times XI. New stars emerged in the thirties including Lloyd...
...Marion and Victor were arrested for this. You can see this event immortalised in the newspaper cutting below, with what the police report states is a faked photograph. Newspaper...
...the monarch in politics and Parliament. The Trial of Queen Caroline represented an opportunity for satirists, reformers and political commentators to address the political and constitutional debate through art, resulting...
...taken. The Second World War In the Second World War, women were mobilised for work and again, did jobs traditionally done by men but for less money. Examples of this...
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