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1 giorno fa · Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave the famous "Wind of Change" speech in South Africa in February 1960, where he spoke of "the wind of change blowing through this continent". Macmillan urgently wanted to avoid the same kind of colonial war that France was fighting in Algeria.
1 giorno fa · He was promoted to become Chief Whip by Anthony Eden in 1955, and in 1959 was appointed to the Cabinet by Harold Macmillan as Minister of Labour. He later held the role of Lord Privy Seal and in 1963, was made President of the Board of Trade by Alec Douglas-Home.
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3 giorni fa · The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain. Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781108425353; 422pp.; Price: £24.99. Mr Mathias Haeussler, review of Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, (review no. 2301) Until recently, Britain’s first referendum on ...
4 giorni fa · Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon ( née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, before becoming Countess of Avon in ...
4 giorni fa · Impero britannico. L' Impero britannico è stato il più vasto impero di tutti i tempi. Comprendeva colonie, domini, protettorati, mandati e altri territori amministrati dal Regno Unito. [3] I territori dell'Impero, sulle mappe, carte geografiche ed atlanti venivano solitamente colorati di rosa, più raramente di rosso: quest'ultimo rendeva le ...
5 giorni fa · Dopo il matrimonio, lei e il marito bisessuale, il diplomatico Harold Nicolson, vissero altrove. Come visitare la tenuta : La curatrice di Knole Eleanor Black afferma che la tenuta di 400 ettari a circa 65 km a sud-est di Londra è "accessibile al pubblico 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7" e i visitatori sono invitati a esplorarne i terreni.
3 giorni fa · University of Ulster. Citation: Professor Emmett O'Connor, review of Jack Lynch: A Biography, (review no. 784) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/784. Date accessed: 17 May, 2024. Harold Macmillan once said that what he feared most was ‘events’. Jack Lynch was one of those politicians who was ambushed by ‘events’.
