1913 was anything but a quiet halcyon year, a point well illustrated in Michael Portillo’s recent Radio Four series Two important Scottish centenaries also came out of it. On August 15, royal assent was given to bill setting up the… Read More ›
St Andrew’s House
Civil Service at War – the boys who didn’t come back
Government publications are more likely move you to sleep rather than to tears. But not Neil MacLennan’s excellent monograph which you can read here. It tells the stories of the 79 civil servants who appear on the First World War memorials… Read More ›