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Inside Parliament: House of Commons (Episode 2)
What is the House of Commons? What happens inside? Find out this and more including ministers, political parties and the speaker in episode 2! Fun Kids is the UK's children's radio station. Tune in on DAB Digital Radio in London and the...
Gresham College
The General Election of 1945 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
The 1945 general election saw the return of the first ever majority Labour government. The Gallup poll had shown a Labour lead for over two years. Nevertheless most politicians and commentators were astonished by the result, since they...
IT'S HISTORY
Zero Hour - Origins of THE COLD WAR
The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to World War 1 and World War 2. In the final months of World War 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin already started to work on a post-war order for the world....
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Sir Keith Joseph and the Market Economy - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Sir Keith Joseph was the most articulate and powerful of the postwar exponents of the market economy at a time when it was distinctly unfashionable. He it was who provided the ideological dynamic for what came to be called Thatcherism....
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Tony Benn and the Idea of Participation - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Tony Benn has been the most prominent modern spokesman of the movement for participatory democracy. It was he who secured the right of hereditary peers to renounce their titles, the right of the people to vote on membership of the Common...
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Enoch Powell and the Sovereignty of Parliament - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Enoch Powell was the most powerful postwar exponent of the idea of the sovereignty of Parliament and indeed of English nationalism, opposing the coming of a multiracial society, devolution, and entry into the Common Market, as the...
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Britain in the 20th Century: The Conservative Reaction, 1951-1965
The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945. Their narrow election victory in 1951 led to 13 years of Conservative rule. How was the party able to reassert itself so quickly and what did it do with its period...
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Animated Politics (1910) | BFI National Archive
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. Watch more election-themed films on BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/collections/never-mind-ballots/ Edwardian elections were a passionate affair. Today's politicians can only dream of...
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WW2: The Resource War - Strategic Bombing - Extra History - #4
*Sponsored* Hearts of Iron IV comes out on June 6! Check out the game: http://pdxint.at/hoi4_coming_soon A series of missed airstrikes resulting in the death of civilians sparked the no-holds-barred Battle of Britain. Germany launched a...
Great Big Story
Step Inside America's Castle
Hearst Castle is one of America's most treasured and visited homes. William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, built the compound in San Simeon, California, after inheriting and purchasing 250,000 acres in the year 1919. The main...
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This Was Queen Elizabeth II's First Speech
In 1940, Princess Elizabeth was tasked with an important job by prime minister Winston Churchill: to give a morale-boosting radio speech to her weary subjects during WWII, from historic Windsor Castle. From the Show: Inside Windsor...
Gresham College
Summit Diplomacy: Some Lessons from History for 21st Century Leaders - Professor Paul Reynolds
'It is not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.' Winston Churchill coined the term 'summit' in 1950, during some of the darkest days of the Cold War. In the second half of the twentieth century summit...
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History of World War 2 (in One Take) | History Bombs
Sign up for History Bombs Classroom: https://www.historybombs.com/ 🏫 This September, save 20% on your subscription with Coupon Code: YOUTUBE2080 History Bombs Classroom is our BAFTA award-winning online history resource for history...
The March of Time
Bogey or Bacon funding question
MOT 1945: REPRISING WRITTEN QUESTION: Member of Parliament Robert Boothby (once Secretary to Winston Churchill 1926-29) dictating question for Chancellor of the Exchequer asking why he authorized over 20 million pounds for American films.
The March of Time
Tehran Conference
MOT 1943: TRANSITION TO 1943: '1943' Superimposed over Tehran Conference building. Communist Dictator Josef Stalin (1879-1953) US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) sitting outside.
The March of Time
Britain parade leaders
MOT 1947: BRITAIN PARADE: WS English spectators police. HA WS Labor leader Clement Attlee Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Canada P.M. Mackenzie King (1874-1950) & General Jan C. Smuts (1870-1950) standing w/ hats off...
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British Commonwealth meeting
MOT 1944: BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MEETING: VS S. Africa Gen. Jan Smuts (L) Canada Prime Minister Mackenzie King (1874-1950 mid L) U.K. PM Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965 C) Australia PM John Curtin (mid R) & New Zealand PM Peter Fraser...
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SOT SPEECH goes with wipe onto Shaw
MOT 1948: CONGRESS OF EUROPE: THE HAGUE: Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) being escorted into hall shaking hands w/ people on stage. Speaking SOT '..we cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe...the day when that union will...
The March of Time
Trial in progress
MOT 1941: NAZI OCCUPIED NORWAY: RADIO BROADCAST: VS Wide farmland, barn house. INT MS Radio station, Norwegians secretly broadcasting. MS Voice operator. INT VS Norwegian men listening to radio in their homes (Winston Churchill VO, SOT)....
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1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW
MOT 1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW: BEHIND Drill Instructor on platform w/ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill climbing up, standing behind D.I., PAN MS Soldiers exercising w/ rifles, barracks BG. WWII, Allied, training, airborne,...
The March of Time
1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW
MOT 1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW: Angled WS British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sitting outside next to Brigadier General William C. Lee w/ other British & American officers sitting, standing, all looking upward BG. VS Aircraft &...
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1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW
MOT 1942: FORT JACKSON REVIEW: VS Sky w/ US Army infantry paratrooper parachutes descending, aircraft in silhouette w/ chutes opening after, VS Sky, VS Paratroopers landing in field, Angled WS British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
This Week in History, November 26-30
Overview of the events of November 26-30. Premiere of film Casablanca; Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel's last will; Mark Twain born in Missouri; Winston Churchill born in England; Green River Killer caught in Washington State
The March of Time
MOT 1941: NAZI OCCUPIED NORWAY: RADIO BROADCAST
VS Wide farmland, barn house INT MS Radio station, Norwegians secretly broadcasting MS Voice operator INT VS Norwegian men listening to radio in their homes (Winston Churchill VO, SOT).