In Ireland, the All-for-Ireland League won five seats in County Cork. The Irish Labour Party seats were County Cork South East, Dublin Harbour (James Connolly elected), Dublin St. James's, Limerick City, Wexford South. The Irish Unionist Party won twelve...
The percentage votes for each party in the general election were as follows (October 1915 general election):
Liberal: 43.1 (40.6)
Conservative and Irish Unionist: 35.8 (41.8)
Labour: 15.3 (13.4)
Irish National: 2.0 (2.9)
Sinn Fein: 1.5 (0.2)
Irish Labour...
Threadmarks: William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Shakespeare (nee Quiney) Hamnet Shakespeare
William Shakespeare married Elizabeth Quiney, daughter of Mary Quiney and Richard Quiney of Stratford-on-Avon, on 17 April 1585. William was 18 years old and Elizabeth 23 years old. Their first child, a boy, was born on 25 October 1585. They named him...
Mary I's religious policy was the same as in OTL. She revived the heresy laws which resulted in about three hundred Protestants being burnt at the stake, most notably Thomas Cranmer, John Hooper, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley.
She gave birth...
Other junior ministers appointed were:
Minister of State Scottish Office: Michael Moore (Liberal)
Minister of State Social Welfare: Ed Davey (Liberal)
Minister of State Trade and Industry: Ed Balls
Minister of State Transport: Paul Tyler (Liberal)
Minister of...
Here are selected junior ministers, appointed 22 and 23 April 2002. Labour also stated otherwise:
Attorney-General: Sir Denzil Davies KC
Solicitor-General: Sir Archy Kirkwood KC (Liberal)
Paymaster-General: Kevin McNamara
Economic Secretary to the Treasury...
Elizabeth Stanton (nee Sanders) gave birth to a boy on 30 July 1535; to a girl on 22 February 1537; and to a second girl on 1 December 1538. She and her husband, Edmund, named them Henry, after her father, Kate, after her mother, and Anne...
Also in the allied terms of Japanese surrender was that Japan would cede South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Russia,
The Japanese cabinet headed by the Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, who was also Minister of the Army, met on 10 November 1942 and...
The Prime Minister, Sarah Taylor, made the following changes to her government on 30 September 1901:
Ann Hewitson from Chancellor of the Exchequer to Foreign Secretary
Robert Cunninghame Graham from Foreign Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lady...
Threadmarks: Meeting between Dalton, Johnston and Hitler, March 1935
In the afternoon session, Hitler denied any intention of violating Austrian independence. He said that Germany wanted an agreement with both France and Britain, but while one with France was full of difficulties, one with Britain would be mutually...
Threadmarks: Meeting between Dalton, Johnston and Hitler, March 1935
On 7 March 1935, Dalton, and the Lord Privy Seal, Thomas Johnston, travelled by plane to Berlin. The next morning, Hitler welcomed them and the British ambassador to Germany, Sir Horace Rumbold. He gave a long speech in which he said that his life work...
Threadmarks: Anglo-German proposals to Germany 1935
At the beginning of February 1935, the Foreign Secretary, Hugh Dalton, and the French Foreign Minister, Pierre Laval, met in London. They decided that the armaments clauses of the Treaty of Versailes should be abolished. They would be replaced by a new...
Although there were no opinion polls, the consensus among political commentators was that the Conservative Party would lose the general election. But it was an open question as to whether the Liberal Party would win an overall majority of seats in the...
Because of the repeal of Home Rule for Ireland, there was a redistribution of seats in Ireland, and the number of constituencies was increased from 42 to 101, and the number in the UK from 632 to 691. The Irish Labour Party, under its leader James...