To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, The National Archives brings to you the first instalment of a new online broadcast event: History Mysteries! Join us as we go on an adventure to uncover the mystery ...

Edward VIII became king following the death of his father, George V. He abdicated the throne in order to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson and became known as the Duke of Windsor. Fort Belvedere is a ...

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Comments: On leave 13 December 1804-10 February 1805. Ship's pay book number: (SB 1) 11 February 1805 to 4 March 1806 (Was at Trafalgar) ...

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In a petition which I was recently allowed to send you from Holloway Prison, I called your attention to a matter of injustice connected with the sentences passed on suffrage prisoners at Bow Street ...

The Prime Minister to-day opened Britain’s first motorway, the Preston By-pass, and so made highway history. This high-speed road for motor traffic only forms the first completed part of the future ...

I wish His Majesty’s Government, who by now ought to be in full possession of the facts regarding the quintessence of the Indian problem, would apply their mind to the real issue. Sir Stafford Cripps ...

The financial side of the Plan may be represented as redistribution of national income and part of the increased cost would arise in any event owing to the rising age of the population, but it will be ...