‘The Sea-Changer’: James Callaghan, 1976-79 The difficulty of inheritance; the prolonged currency crises of 1976...
‘The Somersaulting Modernisier’: Edward Heath, 1970-74 His plan for a new style of government and its...
Four Centuries of Logarithms The first Gresham Professor of Geometry was Henry Briggs, co-discoverer...
‘Country Values’: Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-1964 The consequences of his controversial ascent to the premiership; his...
“In history lie all the secrets”: Winston Churchill, 1951-55 Of all the postwar Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill was the...
‘Shadow and Substance’: Premiership for the Twenty-first Century "In politics of all callings, the test of success or...
‘The Tigress Surrounded by Hamsters’: Margaret Thatcher, 1979-90 A lecture on the style and effectiveness of Margaret Thatcher's...
Fermat’s Final Fling: Last Days of the Last Theorem Some time around 1637 Pierre de Fermat made the most...
‘Quiet, Calm Deliberation’: Harold Macmillan, 1957-63 An assessment of Harold Macmillan's six years as Prime Minister...
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