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February 2025

January 2025

Harold Macmillan’s Controversial Resignation Honours
The Civil Service begged him to think again. But in 1963, Harold Macmillan stood firm and insisted that his resignation honours list was accepted - no…
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Podcast: The special and not-so-special relationships between Presidents and Prime Ministers.
A bonus podcast episode for Since Attlee & Churchill subscribers.
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Lee David Evans
, 
Richard Johnson
, and 
Alvin Felzenberg
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A good election to lose? The 1997 Conservative Leadership Contest
In 1997 the Conservatives lost an election for the first time in over two decades. When John Major resigned, the bloodied, bruised and diminished party…
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Lee David Evans

December 2024

We're launching a podcast!
A new weekly podcast hosted by Richard Johnson and Lee David Evans looking at some of our favourite events and people in post-war British political…
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Parliamentary tributes to… Alec Douglas-Home
A few months after Harold Wilson died, the man he removed from Downing Street - Alec Douglas-Home - shuffled off this mortal coil as well. Parliament…
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Lee David Evans
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My 2024 Christmas Reading List
I've put together a list of some of the best books I read in 2024 - some old, some new, but all worthy of a place on your bookshelf.
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Lee David Evans
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November 2024

‘Put up or shut up’ - The 1995 Conservative Leadership Contest
In a unique twist of events the party leader resigned only to try and reclaim his job and strengthen his position.
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Lee David Evans
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An unlikely political friendship: Harold Macmillan & Tam Dalyell
A question about whether 'laity' should be able to understand Parliamentary bills revealed how an ailing prime minister treated a novice MP.
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Lee David Evans
Parliamentary tributes to… Winston Churchill
Earlier this century he was named the greatest Briton, but how did MPs and peers pay tribute to Sir Winston Churchill when he died in January 1965?
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