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3 giorni fa · James Ramsay MacDonald FRS ( né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
2 giorni fa · By 1931, as the economy headed towards crisis, both in Britain and around the world, with the onset of the Great Depression, Baldwin and the Conservatives entered into a coalition with Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
12 mag 2024 · A film about the extraordinary life and career of James Ramsay MacDonald is showing at the Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope, on Wednesday 22nd May at 7pm. The film is based on the discovery of a box of cine films in 2016 under the stairs of The Hillocks, Ramsay MacDonald’s Lossiemouth home.
13 ore fa · June 1 1924. English newspapers referred to the conversations between President [WT] Cosgrave and Sir James Craig at Chequers, with the Scots premier of England [Ramsay MacDonald] looking on ...
22 mag 2024 · From his early biography of Ramsay MacDonald to his post-retirement books on both Britain and geopolitics he was a pioneering author. He was one of those MPs who helped to make history in politics in the 1980s, most famously in the part he played in founding the SDP. He was an extraordinary Principal of Mansfield College.
22 mag 2024 · By Anthony Seldon. Illustration by Getty. Ever since Ramsay MacDonald headed the first exactly 100 years ago, Labour governments have begun with a bang and ended with a whimper. No bang was more instantaneous than Gordon Brown granting the Bank of England independence within a week of the May 1997 general election.
24 mag 2024 · Baldwin returned to office Nov. 4, 1924, following the downfall of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald. The economic reforms—including the restoration of the wartime McKenna duties (a 40-percent income tax and a 50-percent excess-profits tax), the gold standard , and the silk tax—proposed by Baldwin’s appointee to ...
