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Jan 27, 2016 · Speech to the House of Commons. We’re approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention–totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression. Yet optimism is in order because day by day ...
The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House of Commons from 7 to 9 May 1940, during the Second World War. The official title of the debate, as held in the Hansard parliamentary archive, is Conduct of the War. The debate was initiated by an adjournment motion enabling the Commons to freely ...
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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. [a] [1] Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to socialite Robert Gould Shaw II ...
Apr 14, 2014 · In the literature on inter‐war British political history, the House of Commons is both everywhere and nowhere. Everywhere, because so many famous episodes occurred within the Commons: Lloyd George tapping his forehead to hint that Lord Northcliffe was insane; Baldwin urging conciliation of the unions with the prayer ‘Give peace in our time, O Lord’; Churchill being howled down during the ...
- Richard Toye
- 2014
Jan 20, 2015 · Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament, 20 April 1653. Paul Seaward, director of the History of Parliament Trust, nominated one of the most dramatic scenes ever witnessed in Parliament. "You are ...
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the entry of two African American ...
Maiden Speech in the House of Commons David Lloyd George delivered his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 13 June 1890. His speech was regarding the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Duties Bill and he spoke on the theme of temperance and licensing laws.
