A History of the English-Speaking Peoples 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 Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning of the First World War (1914). It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–58, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition. Churchill, who excelled in the study of history as a child and whose mother was American, had a firm belief
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom usually presented with comparisons to the American Presidency. Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb define it as: "the development of increasing leadership power resources and autonomy within the party and the political executive respectively, and increasingly leadership-centered electoral processes".The classic view of Cabinet Government was laid out by Walter Bagehot in "The English Constitution" (1867) in which he described the Prime Minister as the primus‐inter‐pares ("first among equals"). This view was challenged in "The British Cabinet" by John P. Mackintosh, who instead used the terminology of "Prime Ministerial Government" to describe the British government. This transformation, according to Mackintosh primarily resulted