To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, The National Archives brings to you the first instalment of a new online broadcast event: History Mysteries! Join us as we go on an adventure to uncover the mystery ...

Edward VIII became king following the death of his father, George V. He abdicated the throne in order to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson and became known as the Duke of Windsor. Fort Belvedere is a ...

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Lord JOHN DRUMMOND Commander in Chief of his most Christian Majesty’s Forces in SCOTLAND. WE Lord JOHN DRUMMOND, Commander in Chief of his most Christian Majesty’s Forces in SCOTLAND. Do hereby ...

In a petition which I was recently allowed to send you from Holloway Prison, I called your attention to a matter of injustice connected with the sentences passed on suffrage prisoners at Bow Street ...

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The financial side of the Plan may be represented as redistribution of national income and part of the increased cost would arise in any event owing to the rising age of the population, but it will be ...

The Prime Minister to-day opened Britain’s first motorway, the Preston By-pass, and so made highway history. This high-speed road for motor traffic only forms the first completed part of the future ...

Harvington Hall (HH) is working with dedicated volunteers to catalogue its three archive collections and rehouse them in archival grade storage. HH consulted several archival specialists to develop ...

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I wish His Majesty’s Government, who by now ought to be in full possession of the facts regarding the quintessence of the Indian problem, would apply their mind to the real issue. Sir Stafford Cripps ...

Enclosure in Sir Roger Makins’ despatch No. 524 18211/1/48/55 of the 8th of December, 1955. The instructions issued by the Supreme Court on May 31 of this year, about the desegregation of the American ...