Perhaps the story of the "No Hellers" of the Appalachians might cheer her up. VERY religious Christians, but totally reject concept of Hell in afterlife, as contrary to Christ's sacrifice. … (View Post)

Ramsey Macdonald was retained as (increasingly titular) Prime Minister, as Conservative seal of assurance that the National government was "truly" national, and not just Tory-Tory-Tory. Mos… (View Post)

Some late 19th-cen Liberals were republican, but mass & mainstream were not. And British republicanism faded when Queen Victoria dropped the "Widow of Windsor" schtick and started doing… (View Post)

You were Fiume-ing? (View Post)

1920s but NOT 1930s. Tories had good luck to lose (but not by much) the May 1929 general election . . . just months before Wall Street laid its infamous egg. Labour had bad luck to win . . . and spli… (View Post)