A History of the English-Speaking Peoples four volumes are: The BBC produced a series of twenty-six fifty-minute plays loosely based around Churchill's work and entitled "Churchill's People" which were broadcast in 1974 and 1975. However, the quality of the productions was judged to be poor and the series received low ratings. A sequel to Churchill's work, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900", by Andrew Roberts, was published in 2006. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from
Prime Minister of New Zealand ministerial power; in 1912 Thomas Mackenzie was the last prime minister to lose power through an unsuccessful confidence motion in the House of Representatives. One change brought about by the First World War was direct participation in governing the British Empire. Previously, New Zealand prime ministers had attended occasional colonial and imperial conferences, but they otherwise communicated with London through the governor (a position then appointed by the British government). In 1917, however, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered the New Zealand prime minister a seat in the Imperial War Cabinet, the British Empire's wartime coordinating body. In 1919,