April 3, 1721 Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Britain, though without the actual title.

Walpole was a British Whig statesman, considered to the first holder of the office of prime minister, who dominated politics in the reigns of George I and George II.

Robert Walpole was born on 26 August 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk into a ( Read more... )

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Henry VIII may be our most famous monarch, a man who still bestrides English history as mightily as he dominated his kingdom nearly 500 years ago - but how well do we really understand him? Eric Ives looks for the man behind the bluster.


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