...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...
...Legion’. The British Legion was established to care for those who had suffered either financially or with their health because of military service during the First World War and to...
...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...
...series of events leading up to world changing conclusions. The Stamp Act, Franklin Petition, ‘Olive Branch Petition’, Prohibitory Act and copy of the Declaration of Independence clearly mark the escalation...
...represented for fourteen years. Stone started collecting photographs as a record of everyday life in this country and abroad - he was a world-wide traveller - but, finding he could...
...Archives. These last six months have been a whirlwind of new friends, skills and exciting challenges and there is more yet to come. I became interested in archives and record...
...with even the quills of albatrosses being available for sale. Warning that continuation will lead to inevitable annihilation. For these breeds ‘their beauty is their ruin’. (Read this debate in...
...reins in a hard-fought 1841 General Election. Briefed on the preliminary recommendations he rubber-stamped the formation of a specialist Royal Commission to oversee interior decisions for this proposed modern legislative...
...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...
...first of these two petitions was from inhabitants of Runswick, Yorkshire, presented to the Commons on 2 December 1830. This petition does not specify if it is from a specific...
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