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    James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician...
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    Minister Harold Wilson, who served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. These range from Wilson having been...
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    Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (née Baldwin; 12 January 1916 – 6 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice...
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  • Harold Wilson (1916–1995) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. Harold Wilson may also refer to: Harold A...
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    granted independence during this period. Labour returned to power under Harold Wilson in 1964 and oversaw a series of social reforms including the partial...
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  • James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the...
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    against Wilson. In 2006, the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during...
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  • secretary and head of political office to, UK Labour prime minister Harold Wilson. Born Marcia Field in her parents' town of Long Buckby, there is an...
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    Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who...
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    James Callaghan (category Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970)
    George Brown for the former and Harold Wilson for the latter. Following Labour's victory at the 1964 election, Wilson appointed Callaghan as Chancellor...
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  • Health Service and expanded the welfare state from 1945 to 1951. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, Labour again governed from 1964 to 1970 and 1974...
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  • Angleton, spied on Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson because elements in those agencies claimed that Wilson was a Soviet agent or a blackmail risk. As...
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    Professor Wilson is a son of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife, Mary. Wilson was born in 1943 to the politician Harold Wilson, who later...
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  • and former press secretary to Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Born in Rotherhithe, then an impoverished area of London with appalling...
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  • Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativity, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Season 3 of The Crown and Detective Sergeant Dodds in McDonald &...
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    electoral victories in 1997, 2001 (both landslide victories), and 2005, and Harold Wilson, who won four general elections out of five contested, in 1964, 1966...
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    stiffly in television interviews, by contrast with the Labour leader, Harold Wilson. The Conservative Party, in power since 1951, had lost standing as a...
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    became leader of the Conservative Party. The Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, thought the document a vote-loser and dubbed it the product of Selsdon...
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    Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1979. During this period, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were successively appointed as Prime Minister by...
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  • The Crown (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Harold Wilson)
    and Prince Edward. The third season covers 1964 to 1977, including Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's terms as prime minister, the introduction of Camilla...
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    weeks. The previous parliamentary term had begun in October 1974, when Harold Wilson led Labour to a majority of three seats, seven months after forming...
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  • Fathers'). He portrayed Harold Wilson, the former Prime Minister, in the 2006 BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson. He appeared in Frank Loesser's...
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    their childhood in Huddersfield: Harold Wilson, born locally attended Royds Hall School, and H. H. Asquith. Wilson is commemorated by a statue on the...
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    Shinwell. The job had initially been earmarked for Harold Wilson, with Gaitskell pencilled in to succeed Wilson as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry...
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  • "Sino-Soviet split was a charade to deceive the West". Golitsyn said that Harold Wilson (then prime minister of the United Kingdom) was a KGB informer and an...
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  • being able to predict the future in her art. Harold Wilson (voiced by Kerry Shale) is the father of Tobias Wilson and works as a psychotherapist. He has been...
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    Parliament stepped aside or lost their seats. Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson stood down from Parliament after 38 years, while the Alliance's Shirley...
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    unveiled by Harold Wilson (the next Labour Prime Minister after Attlee) outside Limehouse Library in Attlee's former constituency. By then Wilson was the...
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  • was the first former occupant of the office to receive a life barony. Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher all took life peerages following...
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    Barbara Castle (category Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970)
    Stafford Cripps, and later to Harold Wilson, marking the beginning of their partnership. She was a strong supporter of Wilson during his campaign to become...
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