The Prime Ministers’ World Cup (TRIH ep 35)
1853 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present and review the "Rest Is History" Prime Ministerial World Cup, a Twitter-run knockout tournament to find the most popular British prime minister among their listeners. They explain how Dominic seeded a 16-player field (including Churchill, Walpole, Disraeli, Gladstone, Pitt the Younger, Attlee, Lloyd George and Thatcher) and discuss early-round results: Disraeli over Salisbury, Gladstone over Tony Blair, Churchill over Palmerston, Pitt...
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