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Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives
The Guardian· 2 hours agoMargaret Thatcher described him as “the most skilful of politicians” and Tony Blair thought him “Labour’s most successful leader ever”. Such elegies on the death in 1995 of Harold Wilson, 79 ...
National Archives: Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson sold papers to help fund his care
BBC News· 4 days agoFormer Prime Minister Harold Wilson agreed late in life to sell his entire archive of personal and...
Chinese artefacts in repatriation row were ‘given willingly’ to British Museum
The Guardian· 7 days agoThe British Museum boasts one of the biggest collections of Chinese antiquities in the west, but it has faced repeated calls to return them to China. Now historical documents reveal that many ...
Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows
The Guardian· 7 days agoThe archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of the work to address the Church of England’s historic links to chattel slavery on a trip to Jamaica, as archive research reveals that the slave trader ...