Margaret Thatcher branded the European Commission an undemocratic ‘politburo’ archives show

Margaret Thatcher branded the European Commission an undemocratic ‘politburo’ and regarded proposals for a single currency as the result of ‘a rush of blood to the head’, archives show Files revealed former Prime Minister criticised the single currency proposal Criticised European Commission president Jacques Delors’s for EU integration She likened giving away powers of taxation to gifting … Read more

Stassi Schroeder’s podcast and social media archives reveal more racially-insensitive remarks

A day after apologizing for past ‘racially insensitive comments’ and misleading police in an effort to get a black costar she didn’t like in trouble, audio of Vanderpump Rules Stassi Schroeder has resurfaced speaking negatively about black people. Schroeder, who’s been vocal recently about her support for the Black Lives Matter movement, seemed to have … Read more

Cheryl Cole’s great-grandfather’s diary amongst millions of documents made free by National Archives

Cheryl Cole’s great-grandfather’s heroic First World War exploits are amongst the millions of digital records by the National Archives that will be made free to access for Britons amid the coronavirus lockdown.   Alongside the diary of Joseph Wilson Ridley, who was part of Durham Light Infantry’s 11th Battalion, archives also include the Earl of Stafford’s … Read more

Vatican opens archives to discover why Pope Pius XII stayed silent on Nazis’ extermination of Jews

Historians will today begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope, hoping to discover why Pius XII stayed silent during the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives to begin poring over millions of letters and documents the Vatican kept … Read more