Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he ran a law firm before becoming a member of the London County Council and then a Member of Parliament. He died in office as Winston Churchill’s wartime Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the day he was to announce…
Category: East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding Of Yorkshire, England
East Riding of Yorkshire is the name of the ceremonial county, the administrative county of the Local Government unitary authority, and the easternmost third of Yorkshire. But they don’t all cover the same ground.
Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
In 2017, Kingston upon Hull, generally referred to as Hull, was the UK City of Culture. The awarding judges described their selection of Hull for this honour because the city had “the most compelling case based on its theme as a city coming out of the shadows“. But the purpose of this page is to look backward…
