How elections used to be: the 1964 general election warms up
See how Pathe News reported on the 1964 general election in Britain. … Read the full post »
Read my posts featuring Labour MP James Callaghan, who was Prime Minister from 1976 (taking over from Harold Wilson) until 1979 (losing to Margaret Thatcher).
See how Pathe News reported on the 1964 general election in Britain. … Read the full post »
The following graph shows all the leaders of the Labour Party who have been in post when the party has been in opposition at the time of at least one round of annual council elections. … Read the full post »
I had thought that Harold Macmillan really did say “Events, dear boy, events” when asked what was most likely to knock governments off course. Now, however, I know better. … Read the full post »
I’m not Nick, I don’t have a privileged background, I agree with you on lots of things and I can give a good speech. That was Tim Farron’s message in a nutshell when he gave the William Beveridge Memorial Lecture. … Read the full post »
Leaving through some kindly donated old copies of Liberator from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, there is a distinct sense of déjà vu… … Read the full post »
Some opposition leaders have the natural gift of looking Prime Ministerial even if they have never previously held the lowliest of ministerial ranks for the briefest sliver of time. … Read the full post »
A set of Welsh Political Figures Playing Cards has just been released, featuring hand-drawn caricatures of 54 Welsh figures. … Read the full post »
“Whatever happens in the election this week it is not going to make all that much difference” – Peregrine Worsthone, just before the 1979 general election. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at Bournemouth conference, supported by The Guardian, looked at hung Parliaments and lessons from the past for the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Here’s a full chronology of the rise and fall of the SDP and its alliance with the Liberal Party through the 1980s. … Read the full post »