Next poll?

What should our next poll be? If you have any good ideas, please post a comment, and we'll put the best ones into action.

Thanks!

Polls and Searches

Two new features have been added to the blog today. We now have the ability to have polls so please get voting! They will usually be up for a week and then the results will be published. If you have any ideas for future polls, please make a comment below.

We also now have a Google search box - this does a couple of useful things. It will initially search through all the blog articles for specific words or phrases. However, it then gives you an option to search through all of the sites we are linked to or recommend - ie the specialist history or politics sites on the right hand side. This may give you a more useful result than using a regular search engine. Let us know how you get on with this.

Polls

You may have noticed that a poll has appeared in the top right of the blog. Do you think there should be a Queen's Speech this year when the length of the next Parliament will be severely curtailed by the election? David Cameron doesn't think so. What's your opinion? Please also let us know if there are any problems with the voting process.

UPDATE: This poll isn't very satisfactory as it turns out you have to have a blog to take part! Apologies for that. A new version should appear next week.