Historical place archive

Blackpool in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Blackpool in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

14 records10 event labels9 people1935โ€“1993

Historical events in Blackpool

1935

21 September 1935
Birth of James Christopher Jimmy Armfield
James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield ยท Football

Birth of James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield

1946

1946
Chairman
Richard Austen Butler ยท Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Industrial Policy Committee

1959

1959
Constitution of Great Britain
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell ยท Labour Party

Accepts Wilson's comprimise for Clause IV of the Labour Party for "common ownership". Urges Labour to adopt a mixed economy at the Blackpool Conference

November 1959
Constitution of Great Britain
Harold Wilson ยท Labour Party

Gaitskell accepts Wilson's Clause IV reform of the Labour Party for "common ownership". Describes reforming Clause IV as "taking Genesis out of the Bible"

November 1959
Constitution of Great Britain
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell ยท Labour Party

Accepts Wilson's comprimise for Clause IV of the Labour Party for "common ownership"

November 1959
Reform of Labour Party Policy
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell ยท Labour Party

Accepts Wilson's comprimise for Clause IV of the Labour Party for "common ownership"

1960

1960
Constitution of Great Britain
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell ยท Labour Party Government

Forced to give up his proposed reforms for Clause IV of the Labour Party

1961

10 October 1961
Labour Party Conference
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman ยท Labour Party

Addresses the Labour Party conference while serving as National Executive Committee chairman.

1973

1 October 1973
Tax Policy
Denis Winston Healey ยท Labour Party

Healey warns that high earners will face sharply increased marginal taxation under a Labour government.

1976

28 September 1976
Pay Policy
James Callaghan ยท Labour Party Government

Warns Labour that inflation cannot be solved by spending alone.

28 September 1976
Social Contract
James Callaghan ยท Labour Party Government

Tells Labour that spending cannot simply buy full employment.

30 September 1976
Economy of Great Britain
Denis Winston Healey ยท Labour Party Government

Healey defends his measures to support the pound at the annual party conference.

1985

9 October 1985
Trident Programme
Margaret Hilda Thatcher ยท Nuclear

Conservative delegates vote to support the Trident programme at their party conference

1993

29 September 1993
Constitution of Great Britain
John Smith ยท Labour Party

1 member 1 vote is carried at the Labour Conference

Provenance

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