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Vor 5 Tagen · At university, I was able to use my inside information to write a dissertation about Lloyd George and his controversial attitude toward World War II. Winston Churchill, to Lloyd George’s intense chagrin, once suggested that Lloyd George might emulate Vichy France’s Premier Henri Philippe Pétain and collaborate.
Vor 5 Tagen · ST. GEORGE IN THE EAST. The parish taken out of Stepney. This place was formerly a hamlet, belonging to the parish of Stepney, and was called Wapping Stepney. It was made a distinct parish by an act of parliament passed in 1727, when it acquired the name of St. George.
Vor 3 Tagen · The duke died in 1750, when Sir Charles Wyndham became Earl of Egremont, and dying in 1763, was succeeded by his son George, the second Earl, who possesses a considerable estate in this county, and the ancient castles of Cockermouth and Egremont. The latter is wholly in ruins; in the former are one or two rooms, occasionally occupied ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Second Parliament of George I (1722-27): List of knights, commissioners, citizens & burgesses in Parliament. The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: Volume 8, 1733-1734. Originally published by Chandler, London, 1742. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Vor 4 Tagen · Lloyd wrote choral music with a fluency, tunefulness and majesty familiar from his symphonies, and which had not been heard in the English canon since the deaths of Vaughan Williams and Howells –...
Vor 4 Tagen · Rather than the well-known story of a disproportionate and brutal response to local protests, Lloyd draws a picture of embattled colonial officers with the best of intentions, doing their job under increasingly difficult circumstances; the British consistently acted with great restraint and only used force as a final resort, he claims.
Vor 4 Tagen · David Lloyd George, one of the most dynamic and controversial British political figures of the early 20th century, played a pivotal role during World War I. As the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922, his leadership was instrumental in navigating the complexities of the war and its aftermath.
