In which I skim through The Times from a hundred years ago, pick out some of the articles and comment on the ones I find interesting.
Episodes
Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
15 min
This week – the week ending 2 November 1924 – the Conservative/Unionist Party achieves the biggest and least-well-known election victory of the 20th century. Arguably.
Ramsay MacDonald goes very quiet. Churchill is cheered by a crowd. Churchill is not cheered by the Navy.
Russians cause trouble in Britain. Russians cause trouble in British Columbia. And Russians cause trouble for Stalin.
And Zinoviev makes trouble for Zinoviev.
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