Neville Chamberlain

Everything you need to know about Neville Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain (far right) pictured with his sons Neville (far left) and Austen, daughter Hilda (front left) and third wife, Mary Endicott (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Chamberlain and Cadbury of Birmingham The first families in Britain’s second city

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Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

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A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

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The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

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Q&A Peace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain’s piece of paper?

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

A portrait of prime minister Lord Frederick North. His government was the first to be brought down by a vote of no confidence, in 1782. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Vote of no confidence: a brief history

Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

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Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2

A newspaper seller at the start of WW2

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Countdown to WW2: the 72 hours that took the world to war

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

Who was the best 20th-century prime minister?

Historical novelist Robert Harris, whose latest book 'Munich' explores the events at the 1938 Munich Conference. (Alamy)

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Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris