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26 mag 2024 · The first part of the book is an account of Macmillan and de Gaulle’s early lives. Born in the 1890s, there were little obvious similarities in their upbringings. De Gaulle’s mother was devoutly religious, his father a minor aristocrat who instilled in his children tales of France’s greatness.
2 giorni fa · Alma mater. Christ Church, Oxford. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial ...
20 mag 2024 · Harold Wilson (born March 11, 1916, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England—died May 24, 1995, London) was a Labour Party politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. The son of an industrial chemist, Wilson was educated at the University of Oxford, where, as a fellow of University College (1938 ...
1 giorno fa · Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
10 mag 2024 · John Profumo (born January 30, 1915, London, England—died March 9, 2006, London, England) was a British politician and philanthropist who was the central character in one of the U.K.’s most spectacular sex scandals of the 20th century. The affair helped bring down Britain’s government and led Profumo to devote the rest of his life to charity.
13 mag 2024 · Selwyn Lloyd (born July 28, 1904, Liverpool, Eng.—died May 17, 1978, Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire) was a British Conservative politician who was foreign secretary during Britain’s diplomatic humiliation in the Suez crisis of 1956 and later chancellor of the exchequer under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Lloyd studied law at Cambridge ...
6 giorni fa · No: 50–60% 60–70% 70-80%. At the time of the referendum in June 1975 the UK was just one of nine member states that made up the European Communities. The United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, also known variously as the Referendum on the European Community (Common Market), the Common Market referendum and EEC membership ...
