A century ago, on January 22, 1924, a newspaper placard in London announced: “Lenin dead (official). Ramsay MacDonald Premier.” MacDonald was the first leader of the Labour Party and avowed socialist ...

OVER a century ago the 1924 election brought about the first-ever Labour government and reading about Ramsay MacDonald’s ...

Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, ...

In the fishing village of Lossiemouth in Scotland’s Morayshire, two raw, porridge-fed youngsters worked and played side by side, developed into firm friends. The name of one was James Ramsay MacDonald ...