...limelight he wrote regular columns for the News Chronicle and as a recognised international statesman travelled to America for a lucrative lecture tour that earned him an unprecedented fee of...
...nationalization. The Labour ranks of the National Government were supportive in contrast to Churchill’s ally Lord Max Beaverbrook who dismissed it as socialist thinking. Before the year’s end Reith was...
...D20296 © National Portrait Gallery, LondonblLicence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery The true face of Colonel Francis Hacker was revealed at the National Civil War Centre, Newark, Nottinghamshire, on...
The First World War had an enormous impact on the lives of those who survived it and also upon their families. To mark Remembrance Day in November 2015, the Parliamentary...
...financially supporting the pair. House of Commons Notices of Motion, Olympic Gold, February 1984, House of Commons Library The Old World v The New World – Alfred Bossom Cup...
...term as Prime Minister. His assassination on 11th May put an abrupt end to the progress of his national and international policies. In the centuries since, the singularity of Perceval’s...
...only use his RAF expertise, but drew on his earlier career as an explorer when engaging in debates about international military policies. Shackleton’s skills in this field proved invaluable during...
...bromide press print, 18 November 1910 NPG x32106 © National Portrait Gallery, LondonLicence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) Ayrton was originally Phoebe Sarah Marks but...
...which we are fighting. Portia Dadley, House of Commons Hansard Writing Team Sign up to UK Parliament's Visit Newsletter for the latest updates on visiting and Big Ben, https://parliament.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3ad7e4c57a864f07e4db008c4&id=e227b1ada0...
The personal papers of William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate were placed with the House of Lords Record Office (today’s Parliamentary Archives) in May 1973 by his widow Viscountess Stansgate...
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