Refusing the protection of a personal bodyguard, William Gladstone habitually disappears into the murkier corners of 1880s London. There he seeks out the fal... read more
Britain gets its first Labour Party prime minister in 1924. Ramsay MacDonald is a Scot of humble origins, which the establishment never lets him forget. Duri... read more
World War I leader David Lloyd George faces a bloody war of attrition in Flanders and a submarine campaign that threatens to starve Britain into submission. ... read more
War hero and scourge of Napoleon, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, becomes Britain's new peacetime prime minister. While the Iron Duke dismisses the mur... read more
In 1908, Herbert Henry Asquith moves into No. 10 from the chancellor's residence next door and faces a Commons-versus-Lords battle of historic proportions. O... read more
Raised a Christian but born a Jew, Benjamin Disraeli has always felt like an outsider. Prime minister late in life, he struggles to keep Russian ambitions in... read more
Rigorously groomed for leadership since boyhood, William Pitt the Younger has given his very lifeblood in the service of his country. But the prime minister ... read more