Sitemap - 2024 - Since Attlee & Churchill
Parliamentary tributes to… Alec Douglas-Home
My 2024 Christmas Reading List
‘Put up or shut up’ - The 1995 Conservative Leadership Contest
An unlikely political friendship: Harold Macmillan & Tam Dalyell
Parliamentary tributes to… Winston Churchill
‘The cruellest thing’: the downfall of Margaret Thatcher
Parliamentary tributes to… Harold Wilson
Tory MPs voting tactically? It’s nothing new.
Cleverly eschews the gimmicks and comes out in front.
Sir Stalking Horse takes on the Iron Lady
The rise, fall and surprise return of the ‘stalking horse’
How a handful of Tory activists prevented a change in the Conservative Party's leadership rules.
The first Conservative leadership rules (1965)
Profile of a Scoundrel: The rise and fall of Ernest Marples
Preparing for a change of government: the history of the ‘Douglas-Home Rules’
The day Parliament fell silent.
Macmillan's 20 year wait to join the House of Lords.
A matter of confidence: a history of Conservative Party confidence votes
'Battling Bessie' - Snippets from the life of a Scouse icon
P.S. Why didn't Rab Butler become Prime Minister in October 1963?
The most dramatic Conservative Conference ever?
Could Harold Macmillan have been a Labour prime minister? It's not as unlikely as it sounds...