What lessons does the past offer for the future? If there is one thing history teaches us it’s that the Liberals invariably face a challenging time at the polls following a period of Labour government. Indeed, taken together, the evidence from a string of post-Labour government 20th century elections makes for depressing reading. That said,

Cranmer has received a missive from an erstwhile Labour supporter on the matter of the Government's shameful treatment of the Gurkhas. He shall comment no further for he agrees with every word (except the bit about being 'by nature and history a Labour supporter'): Your Grace, May I humbly bring to your attention the Government announcement regarding the Gurkha soldiers, made today ...

The Labour History Index is a project of the The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI). It aims to provide free access to a searchable union catalogue of the holdings of all IAHL members. These include major research libraries and archives covering labour and trade union history, socialism, communism and labour parties. It is possible to search for references to data, bo...

It's so long ago it gives me a little warm glow of nostalgia, but time was that New Labour tried to ban the largest demonstration in British history, all for the sake of some grass. No, not the sort Ministers stuff into their crack pipes, the grass in Hyde Park of course. The demonstration, which eventually attracted over a million people, making it the largest mobilisation in the history of ...

Bring your cooks and your personal trainers, your butlers and your heiresses. Because new Labour is the natural party of ambition Tony Blair As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted we must be new, newer, newest Labour. The government is Tony Blair, Tony Blair is the government. Brave, courageous, bold, fresh, change, prominent, reform, daring, progressive, market, fearless, distinct, Bl...

I think it safe to say that I never had Chris Giles' faith that the formation of a Conservative-Liberal coalition government would announce the resurrection of something long dead. Yesterday, the temporary Lazarus of evidence based policy making has been put firmly back into his cave with the publication of the State of the Nation report.

Birmingham City Council is celebrating winning funding from a Government initiative designed to bring local Government decision making closer to people.

GORDON Brown was yesterday accused of making a failed attempt to rewrite history when he had to admit that he had cut defence budgets in some years, despite previously saying

One of the most disappointing things about this Labour government has been its pandering to the religious of all persuasions over education, although they seem to be re-orientating themselves. Here's more evidence that faith schools are a bad idea: ?Our findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the more contact children have with

The Picturing United States History website is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center. It aims to provide educators with information and resources which can help them use visual materials (photographs, images, political cartoons, prints) to teach American history. It contains a collection of 'lessons in...