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175 relations: Abersychan, Abersychan School, Abortion Act 1967, Allen Lane, Alternative Vote Plus, Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, Andrew MacKay, Andrew Marr, Ann Fleming, Anthony Crosland, Arthur Jenkins (politician), Arthur Skeffington, Attlee ministry, Baby of the House, BAC TSR-2, Balliol College, Oxford, Barbara Castle, Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue, Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, Birching, Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977, Bletchley Park, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boundary commissions (United Kingdom), Brexit, British Army, British undergraduate degree classification, Brussels, Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Cardiac surgery, Cardiff University, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chris Patten, Clement Attlee, Colin Lucas, Concorde, Congregational church, David Marquand, David Owen, David Steel, Denis Healey, Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom), Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Devaluation, Division of the assembly, East Hendred, Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, Education Reform Act 1988, ..., Edward Carson (Conservative politician), Edward Heath, Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, Eirene White, Baroness White, Electoral system, European Commission, European Communities, European Economic Community, European Monetary System, F&W Media International, Fabian Society, François-Xavier Ortoli, Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred Mulley, Fred Peart, Baron Peart, Gaston Thorn, George Brown, Baron George-Brown, George Galloway, Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency), Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982, Group of Eight, Gwent (county), Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, HarperCollins, Home Office, Home Secretary, Homosexuality, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, Hugh Gaitskell, Iain Macleod, Inland Revenue, James Callaghan, Jenkins Commission (EU), Jenkins Commission (UK), Jim Prior, John Campbell (biographer), John Hanbury Martin, Jonathan Cape, Julian Amery, Keynesian economics, Labour government, 1964–1970, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 1976, Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, Leo Abse, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Party (UK), Life peer, List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford, List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford, Macmillan Publishers, Member of parliament, Merlyn Rees, Michael Foot, Ministry of Aviation, Monmouthshire (historic), National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain), New Labour, Obscene Publications Acts, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Oxford Union, Oxford University Press, Oxfordshire, Paddy Ashdown, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary Private Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, Paul Johnson (writer), Permissive society, Peter Baker (British politician), Peter Hitchens, Peter North (legal scholar), Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Pontypool, Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency), President of the European Commission, Prevention of Terrorism Acts, Private member's bill, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Richard Southwood, Robert Carr, Roy Hattersley, Royal Artillery, Royal Society of Literature, SDP–Liberal Alliance, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Shadow Home Secretary, Shirley Williams, Social Democratic Party (UK), Solihull (UK Parliament constituency), South Wales Miners' Federation, Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency), Southwark Central by-election, 1948, Tam Galbraith, The Abolition of Britain, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), The Right Honourable, Tony Benn, Tony Blair, United Kingdom general election, 1945, United Kingdom general election, 1950, United Kingdom general election, 1964, United Kingdom general election, 1966, United Kingdom general election, 1970, United Kingdom general election, 1983, United Kingdom general election, 1987, United Kingdom general election, 1997, University of Bath, University of Oxford, University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987, Wales, Warrington by-election, 1981, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Welsh people, William Ewart Gladstone, Winston Churchill, World War II, 1926 United Kingdom general strike, 1995 Whitbread Awards. Expand index (125 more) »
Abersychan
Abersychan is a settlement and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, and lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.
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Abersychan School
Abersychan School is a state-funded and non-selective comprehensive school in the Pontypool suburb of Abersychan, Wales.
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Abortion Act 1967
The Abortion Act 1967 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom legalising abortions by registered practitioners, and regulating the tax-paid provision of such medical practices through the National Health Service (NHS).
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Allen Lane
Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
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Alternative Vote Plus
The Alternative Vote Plus (AV+), or Alternative Vote Top-up, is a semi-proportional voting system.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years.
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Andrew MacKay
Andrew James MacKay (born 27 August 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell in Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.
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Andrew Marr
Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British political commentator and television presenter.
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Ann Fleming
Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris; 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), known by previous marriages as Ann, Lady O'Neill and the Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite.
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Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 – 19 February 1977), sometimes known as Tony Crosland or C. A. R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author.
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Arthur Jenkins (politician)
Arthur Jenkins (1884 – 25 April 1946) was a Welsh trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
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Arthur Skeffington
Arthur Massey Skeffington (4 September 1909 – 18 February 1971) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 23 years from 1945 until his death in 1971.
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Attlee ministry
Clement Attlee was invited by King George VI to form the Attlee ministry in the United Kingdom in July 1945, succeeding Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Baby of the House
Baby of the House is the unofficial title given to the youngest member of a parliamentary house.
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BAC TSR-2
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
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Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT (née Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody.
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Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear
(Beatrice) Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear PC (7 August 1913 – 23 April 1997) was a British social scientist and politician.
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Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue
Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue (born 8 September 1934) is a British Labour Party politician, academic, businessman and author.
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Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank
William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC (born Liverpool, Lancashire, 28 October 1928), usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
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Birching
Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.
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Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)
Birmingham Stechford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stechford district of the city of Birmingham.
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Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977
The Birmingham Stechford by-election, in Birmingham, on 31 March 1977 was held after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Roy Jenkins resigned his seat following his appointment as President of the European Commission.
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)
The boundary commissions in the United Kingdom are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of constituencies for elections to the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.
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Brexit
Brexit is the impending withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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British undergraduate degree classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.
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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)
Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.
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Cardiac surgery
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.
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Cardiff University
Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.
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Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997.
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
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Colin Lucas
Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas, (born 25 August 1940) is a historian and university administrator.
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Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003.
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Congregational church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
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David Marquand
David Ian Marquand (born 20 September 1934) is a British academic and former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).
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David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and physician.
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David Steel
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, (born 31 March 1938) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats.
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Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
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Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007, responsible for the education system (including higher education and adult learning) as well as children's services in England.
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Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)
The Deputy Leader of the Labour Party is a senior politician in the British Labour Party.
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Devaluation
In modern monetary policy, a devaluation is an official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange rate system, by which the monetary authority formally sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency or currency basket.
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Division of the assembly
In parliamentary procedure, a division of the assembly, division of the house, or simply division is a method for taking a better estimate of a vote than a voice vote.
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East Hendred
East Hendred is a village and civil parish about east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot.
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Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is an umbrella term for the group of policies aimed at converging the economies of member states of the European Union at three stages.
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Education Reform Act 1988
The Education Reform Act 1988 is widely regarded as the most important single piece of education legislation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since the 'Butler' Education Act 1944.
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Edward Carson (Conservative politician)
Edward Carson (17 February 1920 – 6 March 1987), sometimes known as Ned Carson, was a British Conservative politician.
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Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
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Edward Short, Baron Glenamara
Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara, (17 December 1912 – 4 May 2012) was a British Labour politician.
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Eirene White, Baroness White
Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White (née Jones; 7 November 1909 – 23 December 1999) was a British Labour politician and journalist.
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Electoral system
An electoral system is a set of rules that determines how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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European Communities
The European Communities (EC), sometimes referred to as the European Community,;; were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions.
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states.
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European Monetary System
European Monetary System (EMS) was an arrangement established in 1979 under the Jenkins European Commission where most nations of the European Economic Community (EEC) linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations relative to one another.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Fabian Society
The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
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François-Xavier Ortoli
François-Xavier Ortoli (16 February 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a French politician who served as the 5th President of the European Commission from 1973 to 1977.
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Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Fred Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley, PC (3 July 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law and economist.
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Fred Peart, Baron Peart
Thomas Frederick Peart, Baron Peart, PC (30 April 1914 – 26 August 1988) was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.
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Gaston Thorn
Gaston Egmond Thorn (3 September 192826 August 2007) was a Luxembourg politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally.
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George Brown, Baron George-Brown
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985) was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in several Cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s.
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George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster and writer.
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Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Hillhead was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997.
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Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982
A Glasgow Hillhead by-election was held on 25 March 1982.
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Group of Eight
The G8, reformatted as G7 from 2014 due to the suspension of Russia's participation, was an inter-governmental political forum from 1997 until 2014, with the participation of some major industrialized countries in the world, that viewed themselves as democracies.
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Gwent (county)
Gwent is a preserved county and a former local government county in south-east Wales.
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Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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Home Office
The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.
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Home Secretary
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician and Leader of the Labour Party.
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Iain Macleod
Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.
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Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty.
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James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), often known as Jim Callaghan, served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980.
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Jenkins Commission (EU)
Term: 1977-1981 Party: SOC --> The Jenkins Commission was the European Commission that held office from 6 January 1977 to 6 January 1981.
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Jenkins Commission (UK)
The Independent Commission on the Voting System, popularly known as the Jenkins Commission after its chairman Roy Jenkins, was a commission into possible reform of the United Kingdom electoral system.
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Jim Prior
James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC (11 October 1927 – 12 December 2016), usually known as Jim Prior, was a British Conservative politician.
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John Campbell (biographer)
John Campbell (born 1947) is a British political writer and biographer.
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John Hanbury Martin
John Hanbury Martin (4 April 1890 – 3 February 1983) was a British Labour politician.
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Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.
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Julian Amery
Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, PC (27 March 1919 – 3 September 1996), was a British politician of the Conservative Party, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 39 of the 42 years between 1950 and 1992.
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Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics (sometimes called Keynesianism) are the various macroeconomic theories about how in the short run – and especially during recessions – economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand (total demand in the economy).
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Labour government, 1964–1970
Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 October 1964 and formed the first Wilson ministry, a Labour Party government, which held office with a thin majority between 1964 and 1966.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 1976
The 1976 Labour Party leadership election occurred when Harold Wilson resigned as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister.
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
The Liberal Democrat peers elect the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
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Leo Abse
Leopold Abse (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008) was a Welsh lawyer and politician.
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.
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List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford
This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment.
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List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford
The following people have been Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford in England.
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Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Merlyn Rees
Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC (18 December 1920 – 5 January 2006), born Merlyn Rees, was a Welsh-born Labour party Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–76) and Home Secretary (1976–79).
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Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.
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Ministry of Aviation
The Ministry of Aviation was a department of the United Kingdom government established in 1959.
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Monmouthshire (historic)
Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.
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National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB).
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New Labour
New Labour refers to a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the late-1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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Obscene Publications Acts
Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the Obscene Publications Acts have governed what can be published in England and Wales.
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Order of Merit
The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.
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Oxford Union
The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.
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Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, (born 27 February 1941), known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.
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Parliamentary Private Secretary
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a United Kingdom or New Zealand Member of Parliament (MP) designated by a senior minister in government or shadow minister to act as the minister's contact with MPs.
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Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician.
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Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen
Francis Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, QC (8 August 1926 – 28 May 2016) was a British barrister and cross bench member of the House of Lords.
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Paul Johnson (writer)
Paul Bede Johnson (born 2 November 1928) is an English journalist, popular historian, speechwriter, and author.
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Permissive society
A permissive society is a society in which social norms become increasingly liberal, especially with regard to sexual freedom.
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Peter Baker (British politician)
Peter Arthur David Baker MC (20 April 1921 – 14 November 1966) was a British soldier, author, publisher and Conservative politician who served as a member of parliament (MP) for South Norfolk.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author.
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Peter North (legal scholar)
Sir Peter Machin North, CBE, QC, FBA (born 30 August 1936) is a British academic lawyer who served as Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1984 to 2005 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1997.
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Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate/post-graduate degree which combines study from three disciplines.
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Pontypool
Pontypool (Pont-y-pŵl) is a town that is home to approximately 36,000 people in the county borough of Torfaen, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in South Wales.
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Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency)
Pontypool was a county constituency in the town of Pontypool in Monmouthshire.
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President of the European Commission
The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the:European Union.
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Prevention of Terrorism Acts
The Prevention of Terrorism Acts were a series of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1989 that conferred emergency powers upon police forces where they suspected terrorism.
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Private member's bill
A private member's bill in a parliamentary system of government is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch.
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Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Richard Southwood
Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood GOM DL FRS (20 June 1931 – 26 October 2005) was a British biologist, Professor of Zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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Robert Carr
Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (11 November 1916 – 17 February 2012) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield.
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Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.
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Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".
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SDP–Liberal Alliance
The SDP–Liberal Alliance was a centrist political and electoral alliance in the United Kingdom.
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Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Parliamentary system is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who is responsible for shadowing the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Shadow Home Secretary
In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who 'shadows' the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.
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Shirley Williams
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (née Catlin; born 27 July 1930) is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.
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Social Democratic Party (UK)
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist political party in the United Kingdom.
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Solihull (UK Parliament constituency)
Solihull is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Julian Knight, a Conservative.
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South Wales Miners' Federation
The South Wales Miners' Federation (SWMF), nicknamed "The Fed", was a trade union for miners in South Wales. It survives as the South Wales Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency)
Southwark (Br) Central was a borough constituency returning a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the first past the post voting system.
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Southwark Central by-election, 1948
A by-election for the constituency of Southwark Central in the United Kingdom House of Commons was held on 29 April 1948, caused by the resignation of the incumbent Labour MP John Hanbury Martin.
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Tam Galbraith
Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, (10 March 1917 – 2 January 1982), usually known as Tam Galbraith, was a Scottish Unionist politician.
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The Abolition of Britain
The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair (US subtitle: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana) is the first book by British conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, published in 1999.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Herald (Glasgow)
The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.
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The Right Honourable
The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.
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Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist.
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
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United Kingdom general election, 1945
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.
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United Kingdom general election, 1950
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first ever general election to be held after a full term of Labour government.
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United Kingdom general election, 1964
The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on 15 October 1964, five years after the previous election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party, first led by Winston Churchill, had entered power.
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United Kingdom general election, 1966
The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was won by incumbent Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson and was regarded as an easy victory.
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United Kingdom general election, 1970
The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970.
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United Kingdom general election, 1983
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.
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United Kingdom general election, 1987
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom general election, 1997
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.
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University of Bath
The University of Bath is a public university located in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.
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University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987
The 1987 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton on 29 December 1986.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Warrington by-election, 1981
The Warrington by-election, 1981 was held on 16 July 1981.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1948), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books.
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Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.
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William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1926 United Kingdom general strike
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 9 days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926.
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1995 Whitbread Awards
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Jenkins
