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‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony . . .’
Margaret Thatcher arrives at No 10, husband Dennis by her side.
They would not move out until 1990

Margaret Thatcher moves in to No 10
Ian Aitken, the Guardian

05.05.1979

Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman prime minister,
moved formally into 10 Downing Street with the generous good wishes of Mr Jim Callaghan yesterday,
ready to face up to the first of a daunting array of problems. Before taking the historic step over the threshold
— “One small step for Mrs Thatcher, one giant stride for womankind,” as someone put it —
she paused to do a final walkabout among the cheering crowd of onlookers, and to deliver herself of a few thoughts
on her debt to her shopkeeper father. She uttered the customary words
about the great honour which had been bestowed on her —
words uttered by almost every one of her predecessors in similar circumstances.
But on this occasion, coming from the lips of the first woman
to lead any western government, they acquired a special significance.
Then she went on, rather more surprisingly, to quote St Francis of Assisi:
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; where there is error, may we bring truth;
where there is doubt, may we bring faith; and where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
In fact, as Mr Ted Heath had the temerity to suggest yesterday,
the spreading of harmony may well prove to be Mrs Thatcher’s most difficult task.
She takes over with a handsome working majority in the Commons of 44,
but it is founded solidly on a bedrock of London and southeastern seats,
with the Conservative success steadily shading off to the north, ending up with positive hostility in Scotland.
The party of Disraeli’s “one nation” now finds itself ruling two or perhaps even three nations.
Mr Callaghan, in a graceful and generous statement immediately after tendering his resignation to the Queen,
went out of his way to promise that therewould be no “factitious” opposition
or opposition for opposition’s sake from the Labour party.
He pledged the new Opposition in parliament to assist the government
in any efforts to increase economic growth and the production of wealth.
But he posed one condition for this cooperation — that the wealth so created was fairly distributed.
Then he added a personal recognition of the social and historic significance of Mrs Thatcher’s victory.
After congratulating her, he said: “For a woman to occupy that office is a tremendous moment in our country’s history.
I wish her every success.”

The Guardian pp. 16-17 1.5.2006

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/margaretthatcher

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/opinion/bring-the-iron-lady-back.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/24/margaret-thatcher-handbag-charity-auction

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/30/margaret-thatcher-spying-john-stonehouse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/30/iranian-embassy-siege-sas-policy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/19/lady-thatcher-hospital-flu-infection

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/apr/11/big-picture-margaret-thatcher

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2009/may/04/margaretthatcher-conservatives?picture=346840375

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/tol_archive/article4173725.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Thatcher/0,2759,179761,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,1676906,00.html

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1723382,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hooligans/article/0,2763,1496053,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatspeeches/thatcher/0,,2060111,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatinterviews/thatcher/0,,2154641,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/template/2.0-0/element/
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http://www.margaretthatcher.org/

Scotland Lockerbie plane bombing 1988

The Law Lords rule against the government

and allow the publication of

Peter Wright's contentious book, Spycatcher 1988

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1326319,00.html

Jeffrey Archer, deputy chairman of the conservative party,

is forced to resign amid allegations

he has been sleeping with a prostitute 1986

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1336251,00.html

The Falklands war 1982

http://www.guardian.co.uk/falklands25years/

The Guardian > Special report > The Falklands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/falklands/0,,656774,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1238375,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1224253,00.html

Greenham Common peace camp 1981

The first camp was set up on 5 September 1981

to raise awareness of plans to install

nuclear Cruise missiles at the Berkshire base.

(...)

The airbase was closed in 1993 but the camp remained until 2000.

The first missiles were delivered to Greenham Common in November 1983.

The last one was removed in March 1991.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-14775384

http://www.guardian.co.uk/yourgreenham

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/greenham

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/17/helen-john-greenham-protester-drones

Brixton riots 1981

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1751509,00.html

Northern Ireland conflict IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten 27 August 1979

The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten,

is killed by a bomb blast on his boat in Ireland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_2511000/2511545.stm

Northern Ireland conflict

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/0,2759,446746,00.html

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/symbols/unionloyal.htm

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Good Friday Agreement 1998-1999

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/ni/good_friday.shtml

Ireland / Great Britain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1137140,00.html

James "Jim" Callaghan (1912-2005) Prime Minister 1976-1979

The 'Winter of Discontent'

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page127.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/22/james-callaghan-labour-1979-thatcher

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/30/archives-callaghan-labour-memo-1978

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/30/james-callaghan-missile-defence-fears

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/30/james-callaghan-crisis-winter-1978

http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3809548

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1446269,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1446472,00.html

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1446862,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1446802,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/comment/0,9236,1446628,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/england/pwar_strikes_winter_discontent.shtml

A national referendum backs UK membership of the EEC 6 June 1975

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1500335,00.html

James Harold Wilson (1916-1995)

Second term as Prime Minister 1974-1976

http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/harold-wilson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1995/may/25/obituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/may/04/past-general-election-2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_2524000/2524099.stm

Sir Edward Heath (1916-2005) Prime Minister 1970-1974

Sir Edward Heath.

Photograph: Jane Bown

The Guardian p. 1 18.7.2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1530826,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/page/0,1441,1530967,00.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1698665_1,00.html

http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4197604

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691051.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heath

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page128.asp

James Harold Wilson (1916-1995) First term as Prime Minister 1964-1970

Time Covers - The 60S

Time cover: 10-11-1963 of Harold Wilson.

Date taken: October 11, 1963

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=bf5a62ede5553f67

http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/harold-wilson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1995/may/25/obituaries

Second Bloody Sunday 30 January 1972

British troops open fire on a crowd of demonstrators

in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/30/newsid_2452000/2452145.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/bloody_sunday/gallery/victims.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/bloody_sunday_inquiry/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/bloody_sunday_inquiry/665100.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday/article/0,2763,184928,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday/0,2759,181310,00.html

http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280491/

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/bs.htm

http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/hidden/

Industrial effect of the miners' stoppage > power cuts 1972

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1149432,00.html

Thirty thousand demonstrators

march through London in protest against the Vietnam war 1968

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1337023,00.html

Edward Heath

launches the Conservative Party's mid-term report 7.10.1968

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1587046,00.html

Clement Attlee 1883-1967

Attlee was the British Labour Party leader for 20 years,

and presided over the 1945-1951 Labour government.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/attlee_clement.shtml

Time Covers - The 50S

TIME cover 02-06-1950 ill. of

British Labor Party leader Clement R. Attlee.

Date taken: February 06, 1950

Photographer: Ernest Hamlin Baker

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=c4ed4cbe5145fb22

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/attlee_clement.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/19/labour.labourconference

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/19/labour.past

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/apr/04/electionspast.past

George Blake, a soviet spy,

escapes from Wormwood Scrubs and makes his way to Russia 1966

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1333380,00.html

The Aberfan disaster 21.10.1966

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

http://www.south-wales.police.uk/fe/master.asp?n1=8&n2=253&n3=492

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan/home.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/walesonair/database/aberfan.shtml

British Pathé archives:

Labour romps home in the 1966 election

British Pathé archive clip showing the aftermath of the 1966 general election

in which Harold Wilson's Labour party

won a decisive victory over Edward Heath's Conservatives

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/may/04/past-general-election-2010

Channel tunnel plan 1964

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1142470,00.html

The 'Profumo affair' case 1963

Profumo

shortly after he was appointed secretary of state for war in 1960.

He could not escape the public humiliation of the events of 1963

Photograph: Jimmy Sime/Getty

Obituary John Profumo The Guardian p. 35 11.3.2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/apr/10/past.derekbrown

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1727998,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1728035,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1728207,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1728317,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,,105601,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,9061,1659480,00.html

Thousands protest against H-bomb 18 April 1960

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/18/newsid_2909000/2909881.stm

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) Prime Minister 1957-1963

"You've never had it so good."

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page131.asp

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRmacmillan.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/10/newsid_3783000/3783251.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/29/newsid_2547000/2547307.stm

http://www.mdlg05075.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/macmillan.htm

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artandthe60s/thm_neversogood.htm

Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule 11 April 1957

The British government is to allow the island colony of Singapore

to govern itself under a new constitution agreed in London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/newsid_2828000/2828903.stm

Pakistan becomes independent March 24, 1956

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1175958,00.html

The Suez crisis / Suez and the end of empire 1956

British and French forces

withdraw from the Suez, ending the campaign 23 December 1956

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1928212,00.html

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1816839,00.html?gusrc=rss

http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,1817659,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1379131,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,9061,451936,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,883437,00.html

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,615687,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5199392.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5195068.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/suez_01.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/219.shtml?question=219

Allied forces take control of Suez 6 November 1956

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_3115000/3115888.stm

UK / USSR Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean 1956

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1145739,00.html

Women return to the workforce in part-time employment 1956

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1585368,00.html

British Pathé archives: the 1955 election

The Conservatives increase their majority to 60 seats

as Anthony Eden's party beats the former prime minister, Clement Attlee

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/apr/30/general-election-1955

British Pathé archive:

The Queen greets Haile Selassie

Footage from 1954 in which the Queen,

the Duke of Edinburgh and prime minister Winston Churchill

welcome Ethiopia's emperor to London for a three-day state visit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/oct/15/british-pathe-archive-queen-haile-selassie-video

British soldiers return from prison camps in North Korea 17 September 1953

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1572293,00.html

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 / Control off sweets 1953

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,968812,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1141446,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1950-1959/Story/0,,105167,00.html

The Egyptian Republic / Anglo-Egyptian relations 1953

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1242126,00.html

Great floods 1953

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/page/0,,2208302,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,2208420,00.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/anniversary/floods1953.html

http://www.open2.net/naturalhistory/1953.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/weather/features/great_flood.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/1953_flood.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/senseofplace/floods1953.shtml

Iran Mohammad Mossadeq is overthrown in a coup

engineered by the British and American intelligence services August 1953

General Fazlollah Zahedi is proclaimed as prime minister

and the Shah returns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/806268.stm

Kenya Mau Mau rebels "Kenya emergency" 1952

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/05/kenyans-sue-uk-colonial-human-rights-abuses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,1921282,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,1888754,00.html

British Pathé archives: the 1951 election

Archive footage of the run-up to the 1951 general election,

won by Winston Churchill's Conservative party

thanks to the first-past-the-post electoral system

British Pre-Elections - Burrows, Chat, Castle, Haas, Kauffman, W.Smith

Date taken: 1950

Photographer: Larry Burrows

Life
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=62589e07a454804e

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/apr/30/general-election-1951

Iran Parliament votes to nationalise the oil industry,

which is dominated by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company April 1951

Britain imposes an embargo and a blockade,

halting oil exports and hitting the economy.

A power struggle between the Shah and Mossadeq ensues

and the Shah flees the country in August 1953.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/806268.stm

British battles Korean War Korea, 1951

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/korea/

Winston Churchill Britain's relationship with America 10.10.1951

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1588628,00.html

British Prime Ministers

Anthony Eden France and UK consider 'merger' 1950s

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1990795,00.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2548415,00.html

Petrol rationing ends 25.5.1950

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1224488,00.html

Mass Observation 1937 to early 1950s

http://www.massobs.org.uk/

South Asians making Britain Timeline 1858-1950

The impact of South Asians on British life

from the Raj to the early years of Indian independence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/sep/10/south-asians-making-britain

India becomes a republic 1950

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_3485000/3485587.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26/newsid_3475000/3475569.stm

The Tory party conference agenda

is overtaken by an emergency resolution on the economic crisis 30.9.1949

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1582057,00.html

London Olympics 1948

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/page/2008/jul/09/1

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/1968-olympics-the-divided-legacy-of-black-power-863932.html

Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) National Health System 1948

Br. Laborite Aneurin Bevan

standing on a soap-box and making an election campaign speech

on a farm while a small boy is mimicing him.

Date taken: May 10, 1955

Photographer: Carl Mydans

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=5025a75966408a26

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bevan_aneurin.shtml

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,105132,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,105133,00.html

Winston Churchill 1874-1965

http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00i

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_2506000/2506493.stm

http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/home.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/02/sidney-street-siege-100-years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1714465,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,1676474,00.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,1676129,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127383,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,105637,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1186106,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1213416,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1772298,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1950384,00.html

UK / USA Special relationship

The US president [George W. Bush]

inspecting the Guard of Honour at Buckingham Palace

The Guardian November 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/picture/page/0,13302,1089266,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/1186166.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1749677,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/ story/0,12269,1588628,00.html

The great floods 1947

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,2134122,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,2133661,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6448525.stm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7ou_ZMrrwO8

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/1721484

http://www.rms.com/Publications/1947_UKRiverFloods.pdf

http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/floods47.html

British empire

India and Pakistan's independence 1947

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_89.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/indiapakistan/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6947226.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6947504.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2148922,00.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2147824,00.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2150138,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007wv67

Partition of Palestine 1947

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1681322.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/israel_and_palestinians/key_maps/6.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001
/israel_and_palestinians/timeline/1947.stm

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,105143,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128354,00.html

Bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem,

the headquarters of British rule July 22, 1946

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/42/a2040742.shtml

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060704/halltext/60704h0286.htm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,690-5826,00.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2277717,00.html

Victims of UK's cold war torture camp 1946

Archive pictures of German prisoners held by the British

following the second world war.

Photographs: Martin Argles

The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

· Treatment of suspected communists revealed

· Four court martialled after police inspector's inquiry

Ian Cobain The Guardian Monday April 3, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1745662,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1745489,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1745662,00.html

British Pathé archives: the 1945 election

Archive footage of British troops in Burma voting in the 1945 general election

that Clement Atlee's Labour party would go on to win

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/apr/30/general-election-1945

WW2

Albert Frederick Arthur George King George VI (r. 1936-1952) 1895-1952

George VI became King unexpectedly

following the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, in 1936

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensoftheUnitedKingdom/TheHouseofWindsor/GeorgeVI.aspx

[ King George VI

Elizabeth Queen Of England Consort Of George VI ]

Undated

Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=683db1a383fda5b8

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2703403.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2711000/2711265.stm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MONgeorgeVI.htm

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page147.asp

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page923.asp

http://www.murraypayne.com/kg6_1.htm

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1011.asp

http://www.arte.tv/fr/programmes/242,date=23/11/2011.html

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/edward_george_deux_freres_pour_une_seule_couronne-4267492.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7918.shtml

http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE00002147/
le-roi-george-vi-et-la-reine-dans-les-quartiers-bombardes-de-londres.fr.html

Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists

Battle of Cable Street 1936

http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1884440,00.html

Edward VIII r. 1936 (1894-1972)

King Edward renounces the throne 11 December 1936

Pasted from Wikipedia
ttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/
Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17964%2C_Ordensburg_Kr%C3%B6ssinsee%2C_Herzog_von_Windsor.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17964,_Ordensburg_Kr%C3%B6ssinsee,_Herzog_von_Windsor.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_of_the_United_Kingdom

Primary source > Bundesarchiv
Inventory: Bild 102 - Aktuelle-Bilder-Centrale, Georg Pahl
Signature: Bild 102-17964
Old signature: Bild 146-1969-074-12, Bild 146-1974-082-20
Original title: Der Herzog von Windsor auf der Ordensburg Crössinsee in Pommern am 13.10.37
Der Herzog schreitet die Front der SS im Burghof ab.
Links: Robert Ley
Dating: 13. Oktober 1937
Photographer: Pahl, Georg

Origin: Bundesarchiv
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1271488559/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensoftheUnitedKingdom/TheHouseofWindsor/EdwardVIII.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/edward_viii_king.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2701463.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2701965.stm

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page143.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jan/03/past.monarchy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1936/dec/11/queenmother.monarchy

The Jarrow march / crusade 1936

Mass unemployment and extreme poverty in the north-east of England

drove 200 men to march in protest from Jarrow to London.

Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson was with them

as they came south to petition parliament

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/jarrow_01.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/28/jarrow-crusaders-win-fight-council-fees

The Lancashire 'hunger-marchers' reach Brentford 1932

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1601544,00.html

Depression 1931

http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128330,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,6051,126796,00.html

Wall Street Crash 1929

Unemployment in Britain in 1932

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/england/ear20_wall_street_crash.shtml

Herbert Henry Asquith 1852-1928 Prime Minister 1908-1916

TITLE: H.H. Asquith

CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 4064-14[P&P]

MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on caption card]

FORMAT: Glass negatives.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Herbert_Henry_Asquith.jpg

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page140.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/asquith_herbert.shtml

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRasquith.htm

The Anglo Irish treaty 1921

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/64206.stm

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/ait1921.htm

Ireland First Bloody Sunday / The Croke Park massacre 21 November 1920

The IRA kills 14 British undercover intelligence officers

in a series of morning raids in Dublin on Sunday, November 21.

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1920-1929/Story/0,,126559,00.html

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=
4D3BFE22077D42DD9F25C89C406606E2.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=468758

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200304/ai_n9216122/pg_1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/64204.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/feb/23/rugbyunion.foreignpolicy

Ireland The War of Independence 1919-1921

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/easterrising/index.shtml

British control: Mandate Palestine 1920-1948

Palestine

- now Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jordan -

was among several former Ottoman Arab territories

placed under the administration of Great Britain by the League of Nations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_israel_palestinians/maps/html/british_control.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1937/jul/08/israel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/feb/03/history.politics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4202298,00.html

Parliament debates the coal strikes 19 October 1920

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1595719,00.html

Afghanistan Third Anglo-Afghan War

The third war broke out

when Afghanistan declared independence from this quasi-British rule in 1919.

However, for Britain, the Bolshevik Revolution had reduced the Russian threat and,

with military spending crippled in the wake of the World War I,

interest in Afghanistan gradually waned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8151294.stm

Representation of the People Act 1918

http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/historical/1918representation.cfm

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/making_history_brave.htm

World War one / WW1 / The Great War

The First Women MPs 1919-1945

http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/
parliamentary_archives/archives___the_first_women_in_parliament_1919_1945.cfm

Arthur James Balfour The Balfour Declaration 1917

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1632259.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,608726,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Balfour

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbalfour.htm

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page142.asp

Britain's occupation of Iraq 1917

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1728735,00.html

Ireland Easter Rising 1916

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1755374,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1750463,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/easterrising/index.shtml

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8654

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/index.asp?docID=2526

Ulster Crisis 1906-1914

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/ni/rise_sinn_fein.shtml

A Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip,

assassinates Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria,

heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne,

in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina June 28 1914

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1249151,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A11873900

Britain and France Entente cordiale 1904

Entente Cordiale celebrations 1905

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/entecord.html

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/ententecordiale1904.htm

http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/historical/1905entente.cfm

The suffragettes

Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928

Legal milestones for women 1832-1928

Emmeline Pankhurst

Government of Ireland Act 1920

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/goi231220.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/64204.stm

The Ulster Crisis 1849-1920

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/ni/ulster_crisis_1860.shtml

Sidney Street siege, London 2 January 1911

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/02/sidney-street-siege-100-years

http://www.met.police.uk/history/sidney_street.htm

Conflict between striking miners and policemen in the Rhondda Valley 1910

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1637290,00.html

Government feared suffragette plot to kill Asquith 1909

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,1884105,00.html

Moving towards a welfare state 1908

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1640179,00.html

Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1899-1909/Story/0,,126334,00.html

http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/empire/rhodes.html

Second Boer War 1899-1902

http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1881168,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1762319,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1950384,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/vic_boer_war.shtml

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WARboer.htm

http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/boer/boerwr.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/169.shtml?question=169

The death of Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901) 1819-1901

Queen Victoria, 1838
Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)
Oil on canvas; 36 x 28 3/8 in. (91.4 x 71.5 cm)
Bequest of Francis T. S. Darley, 1914 (14.126.1)

Sully executed this oil study over the course of four sittings at Buckingham Palace,
the first of which was March 22, 1838.
That day, the artist wrote a fairly precise description of Victoria's appearance in his journal,
noting that she was "of good form, particularly the neck and bosom."
While propriety forbade him from calling attention to her décolletage,
he felt free to feature the attractive expanse of her back.
The greatest license Sully took in portraying Victoria
as a lovely young woman was to express her sensuality.
This comes across in the oil study
in which he described her neck and shoulders in the succulent,
painterly style that characterizes his finest work.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tsly/hd_tsly.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,,1128750,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1692834,00.html

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page118.asp

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRvictoria.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/victoria_queen.shtml

http://www.victorianweb.org/vn/victor6.html

http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/text.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1265

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tsly/hd_tsly.htm

http://www.nga.gov/past/data/exh726.shtm

http://lafayette.150m.com/vic0008.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-3.html

http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page1699.asp

http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/victoria.pdf

Queen Victoria, 1838
Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)
Oil on canvas; 94 x 58 in. (238.8 x 147.3 cm)
Lent by Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton Jr. (L.1993.45)

In an ingenious take on traditional state portraiture,
Sully chose the moment of the queen's literal and physical ascendance
in order to convey her dignity and humanity, her femininity and strength.
Ironically, she could not gracefully climb stairs.
"It gives her pain to ascend or descend steps," Sully noted.
"I fear [there is] something wrong in the knee."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tsly/hd_tsly.htm

Let's end the myths of Britain's imperial past

David Cameron would have us look back to the days of the British empire with pride.
But there is little in the brutal oppression and naked greed
with which it was built that deserves our respect

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/19/end-myths-britains-imperial-past

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