Today in History for July 26: In 1603, James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. He then authorized an English translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known since as ...

Somewhere in the 1990s, after he had left office, I had to introduce Norman Tebbit as the speaker at a formal dinner. “Lord ...

Unlike almost all of Thatcher’s ministers, Tebbit did not go to university, but left school at 16 to encounter the “closed shop”: that one had to be a member of a particular union to work in a ...

Across much of Europe, the engines of economic growth are sputtering. In its latest global outlook , the International ...

Haileybury school in Hertfordshire has produced some notable alumni over the years. Clement Attlee, the post-war Labour prime ...

1950: US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time in the Battle of Osan. On the same day, the Law of Return ...

The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also started with a landslide ...

On top of this, the government has become known for doing some remarkably un-Labour things. In September 2024, it changed the ...

Normalcy favours Labour. The conventional course of events is for a party to win a general election, run into trouble, lose ...

The columns of the Stornoway Gazette in June and July 1945 were dominated by coverage of the General Election campaign in the ...

Clement Attlee’s Labour government, in essence, delivered it – inspired by a report by economist William Beveridge, which detailed a system of social insurance covering every citizen, regardless of ...

The fourth of July may be synonymous with freedom in the United States, but around the world it has a very different meaning.