This clip from May 1949 features HRH The Duke of Edinburgh being installed as Chancellor of the University of Wales at Bangor. He is joined by the future Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Clement ...

No U.K. Prime Minister has ever attended a U.S. president’s inauguration. The U.S. State Department keeps records of visits ...

After an unhappy first six months in government, Mr Starmer used his New Year’s address to invoke Clement Attlee’s postwar administration and vow to “rebuild” Britain. In some areas, he can claim to ...

Having emerged from the aircraft with her baby, one young mother was asked by the press if she had a message for others like her. In mournful tones, she replied: “Don’t leave. Don’t go to the US ...

Sir Winston Churchill died 60 years ago this week on 24 January 1965. It was the only occasion since the Second World War ...

Those jockeying to succeed Canada’s prime minister should heed the lesson of his failed ... akin to Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide in 1936 or Clement Attlee’s in 1945. Despite his elite background and ...

As Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the 1920s, memorably once put it: “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity ...

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s vision for a free India was not merely a dream but a call to action. He famously declared, “Give ...

In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic ...