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On 30 August 2002, Malcolm Rifkind made the following changes to his shadow cabinet: Tony Blair from shadow Housing and Local Government Secretary to shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Stephen Dorrell from shadow Health Secretary to shadow Housing and...

Henry and Margaret had four more children who lived to adulthood. Arthur, born 6 February 1541; Henry, born 15 May 1544; Anne, born 19 October 1547; Margaret, born 12 August 1551. Henry IX ended the intermittent persecution of Protestants by his...

Henry, Prince of Wales, married Margaret of Valois on 16 July 1538. She was fifteen years old (born 5 June 1523). the youngest child of Francis I of France and his wife, Claude of Brittany. Henry was twenty-two years old (born 9 February 1516)...

Denis Healey graduated from Baliol College, Oxford, in June 1940 with a Double First in Honour Moderations and Litterae Humaniores (Mods and Greats). He got a job as a political correspondent with The New Statesman , a left-wing weekly journal. He was...

The South African War ended on 7 September 1902 with the surrender of the armed forces of the Boer Republics of the Orange Free State, and Transvaal. By the Treaty of Pretoria signed on 16 September 1902, the Boer Republics were incorporated into...

Arthur Greenwood, the British Prime Minister, and the French Prime Minister, met Mussolini near the town of Stresa in northern Italy from 11 to 14 April 1935. They agreed to a League of Nations resolution which would respond with sanctions to any...

When Hugh Dalton and Thomas Johnston returned to London, they gave a full report of their talks with Hitler to the cabinet and the House of Commons. At its meeting on 18 March 1935, the cabinet agreed to publish a White Paper which announced an...

These are good idea. In October 1911, the Board of Trade changed its guidance on the number on lifeboats carried by ships, so they had to carry more. Also lifeboat drill was made mandatory. The Titanic still sank, but more people survived, The...

I have decided to make the following changes to the list of cabinet ministers in my previous post: India Secretary: Edwin Montagu Chief Secretary for Ireland: Charles Hobhouse Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: William Wedgwood Benn First Commissioner of...

Bonar Law resigned and Sir Edward Grey became Prime Minister on 17 December 1917. He appointed his cabinet on 18 December, and junior ministers on 19 and 20 December. The members of the cabinet were as follows: Prime Minister: Sir Edward Grey Lord...

William Shakespeare became an actor, poet and renowned playwright. His plays were written in collaboration with his sister Joan. Though at the time and for long afterwards, he was credited with being the only author. Joan married Henry Hathaway on 1...

I don't know if the children of Mary I and Philip II were Tudors or Hapsburgs. Some of Mary's Privy Councillors had also served under Henry VIII and/or Edward VI. John Baker; Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel; Lord Willi am Paget, William Paulet...

Philip II of Spain was the nominal head of the Regency Council for Edmund 1, but because he was in Spain the other members, who were also Privy Councillors, acted in his absence. They were: Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir John Baker Secretaries...

Thank you. The leadership election was conducted by the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, with the chairman, Sir Michael Spicer, acting as returning officer. The timetable was as follows: First ballot of Conservative MPs: 21 May 2002, second ballot...

It has been. On Monday 22 April 2002, John Gummer announced to the media that he would resign as leader of the Conservative Party, when party members had elected a new leader. In 1999, the method of election of Conservative Party leaders was changed...