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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was to be the last general election for a decade, the first fought by the SNP and it marked the start of an era of ...