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  • Radio Caroline

    Radio Caroline History Pirate' unlicensed pop radio station first set up in 1964, broadcasting 24 hours-a-day in the English language. Massively popular with the young and financed by advertising. Precursor of current-day commercial radio. A response to its popularity by the BBC led to Radio 1.

  • Rachman Scandal

    Rachman Scandal History Unscrupulous exploitation of tenants in the Notting Hill area of London in the 1950s and 1960s, landlord Peter Rachman built up a property empire, using mansion blocks for multi-occupation. He drove out (mostly white) sitting tenants re-letting properties to immigrants […]

  • Rank and File Membership

    Rank And File Membership History Ordinary members of a body, organisation, political party or trade union who have no elected responsibilities.

  • Rank and File Membership

    Rank And File Membership History Ordinary members of a body, organisation, political party or trade union who have no elected responsibilities.

  • Ramsay Macdonald

    Ramsay Macdonald History Prime Minister in the first Labour governments between 1924-1955 and 1929-1931. Faced with the crisis of the Great Depression he formed a National Government from 1931-1935, remaining Prime Minister in a government mainly made up of Conservatives. He was expelled from […]

  • Ramsay Macdonald

    Ramsay Macdonald History Prime Minister in the first Labour governments between 1924-1955 and 1929-1931. Faced with the crisis of the Great Depression he formed a National Government from 1931-1935, remaining Prime Minister in a government mainly made up of Conservatives. He was expelled from […]

  • Racial Discrimination

    Resources See Also Further Reading Racial Discrimination in the Encyclopedia of Britain Racial Discrimination in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Racial Discrimination in the Halsbury's Laws of England Racial Discrimination in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and […]

  • Railways

    Resources See Also Further Reading Railways in the Encyclopedia of Britain Railways in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Railways in the Halsbury's Laws of England Railways in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Railways in the Jowitt's Dictionary of […]

  • Rape History

    Rape Legal History of Rape English Common Law Introduction to Rape History During the 12th and 13th centuries, an elaborate system of law based on judicial decisions, known as the common law, developed in England. The common law made rape a crime and provided for punishment of the rapist (but […]

  • Ranulf de Glanvill

    Introduction to Ranulf de Glanvill Ranulf de Glanvill (1130?-1190), English statesman and jurist, born in Stratford (now Stratford Saint Andrew), Suffolk. He was sheriff of Yorkshire from 1163 to 1170 and of Lancashire after 1173. In 1176 he was appointed justice of the king's court, and […]