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...Oliver Cromwell, both Napoleons, Hitler, Trump and Johnson all make an appearance....
...“There are hundreds of seasonal customs in Britain, and all the costumes on display give an insight into the varied communities that uphold these events and rituals, from St Margaret’s Hope in Orkney to...
...And you know, you’d probably say that Margaret Thatcher’s mission was to try to get the government off the back of the people....
...Mantel’s blockbuster Wolf Hall series, recounting the unlikely rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell from blacksmith’s son to Tudor powerbroker, rejuvenated the genre of historical fiction, bringing her critical...
...Apollo Global Management has named Sullivan & Cromwell partner Whitney Chatterjee its next chief legal officer....
...A short story about the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher, 20 years in the writing, courted controversy too....
...As his opposite number Rachel Reeves gamely tried to react, Pat McFadden, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, looked ashen....
...The second new venture is a week-long LAW “showcase” exhibition at the gallery hub Cromwell Place located in South Kensington....
...Margaret Thatcher worked for the company as a chemist before becoming a Tory MP in 1959....
...If last year’s Booker Prize was consumed by controversy — the judges broke the rules and split the award between Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo — this year’s risks slipping under the radar....
...Hilary Mantel, who was longlisted for The Mirror and the Light, the concluding volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy — and who had enjoyed Booker wins with the previous two — failed to make the cut....
...In 1653, Oliver Cromwell went on to draft an Instrument of Government, to apply throughout Britain and its colonies....
...Mantel maps the rise of Cromwell from blacksmith’s son to one of the most powerful men in the court of Henry VIII....
...A year later, she published a collection of short stories, of which the titular “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” featured a Mantel-esque character held hostage by an IRA gunman, who uses her well-positioned...
...Even Michael Foot produced a better outcome in Margaret Thatcher’s Tory landslide of 1983, picking up 209 seats....
...We stop outside St Margaret of Antioch and give it a proper examination: “There is the sense that there is going to be a story....
...That led to a general election and the triumph of Margaret Thatcher at the ballot box....
...And why does Vinie Burrows appear to rely on a printed script when playing Cromwell?...
...In 2013 she described Kate Middleton as appearing “designed by a committee”; in 2014 she published a short story imagining the assassination of Margaret Thatcher....
...Diarmaid MacCulloch talk about their different perspectives on the 16th-century lawyer and statesman Thomas Cromwell....
...Remember George Osborne being caught with tears welling in his eyes at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? Would he have been a sterner man if he had held back his tears?...
...The coup was supposed to begin with a secret ballot of MPs on Tuesday, triggered by a letter from two MPs, Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey....
...Labour Briefing magazine, October 2012 ON MARGARET THATCHER: “[I would like to] go back to the 1980s and assassinate Thatcher.”...
...Margaret Beckett, Alan Johnson, Pat McFadden and John Woodcock were among those rejecting their leader’s claim that attacking Isis in Syria would make Britain less safe....
...“We want competition, we want choice — but if Margaret Thatcher believed in one thing it is that freedom is only possible under the rule of law,” he wrote....
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