Daily Archives: September 15, 2011


> In terms of rank rottenness,Dunwich would vie with the fictional Dunny-on-the-Wold as the most rottenborough in the British Parliament. By the time of the Reform Act 1832, the bulkof the constituency was underwater, leaving only a tiny village of “44 housesand half a church” It was a very different Dunwichthat received its entitlement to two representatives in Parliament in 1298, andeven this was a shrunken, […]

>Under the waters


> Winston Churchill is best known as the war-time Prime Minister who led Britain through survival to victory. Whilst constituting the most celebrated period of his political life, the five years of his premiership in the 1940s represent only a fraction of his overall Parliamentary career. Churchill was a Member of Parliament for just under 64 years, between 1900 and 1922 and again from 1924 to his […]

>The extraordinary career of Mr Churchill