Despite Peel's support the albums achieved little success, although the band did become popular on the UK university and college circuit.

Although it had never dominated Hatherton's radicalism, he had long been loyal to the anti-Corn Law cause and had spoken most effectively on the subject when he presented no less than six petitions from Wolverhampton in 1839 There was never any doubt of his support for the repeal of the laws in 1846, a volte-face for the Tory party that split it more disastrously and more permanently than Maynooth and brought down Peel's government.

The government was brought down by Peel's decision in 1846 to support the repeal of the Corn Laws, leading to a split in the Tory party and the formation of a Whig government under Lord John Russell.

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular " Peel sessions ", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame.

In both cases, the exact relationship between the partners was left ambiguous, although they seemed to have carte blanche to visit each other's homes whenever they pleased and it was not uncommon for scenes to suggest Steed had spent the night at Gale's or Peel's home, or vice-versa.

Alun Hughes, who had designed clothing for Diana Rigg's personal wardrobe, was suggested by the actress to design Emma Peel's " softer " new wardrobe. Pierre Cardin was brought in to design a new wardrobe for Macnee.

In order to improve relations with Irish Catholics, Peel's government proposed increasing the annual grant paid to the Seminary for training Catholic priests.

Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting general election ( January 1835 ) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne in April 1835.

His sponsor for the election ( besides his father ) was the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next 25 years.

Peel's protégé Gladstone later emulated Peel by serving as MP for Oxford University from 1847 to 1865, before himself being defeated for his willingness to disestablish the Irish Church.

Peel was selected as Prime Minister but was in Italy at the time, so Wellington acted as a caretaker for the three weeks until Peel's return.

In 1843 Peel was the target of a failed assassination attempt ; a criminally-insane Scottish woodsman named Daniel M ' Naghten stalked him for several days before accidentally killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond instead.

That subsidies were actually given was very much out of character for the political times ; Peel's successor, Lord John Russell, received more criticism than Peel on Irish policy.

More successful was his cooperation with Patrick Colquhoun in tackling the corruption in the pool of London which led to the Thames Police Bill of 1798 which was eventually passed in 1800, leading to the formation of the Thames River Police, which was the first preventive police force in the country and was a precedent for Robert Peel's reforms 30 years later.

The song received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel's evening show, and Bauhaus was subsequently asked to record a session for Peel's show, which was broadcast on January 3, 1980.

After returning to Germany for a few days, the group was permitted to re-enter the UK, when they recorded material for John Peel's radio show and appeared at the Middle Earth venue, introduced by Peel on Saturday 20 January.

In 2004, Smith stood in as one of three guest presenters for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, a week before Peel's death.

However, he eventually approved of Peel's scheme for granting relief to Catholics in 1829.

The first album by The Nice was recorded throughout the autumn of 1967, and in October of that year they recorded their first session for John Peel's Top Gear.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

The band recorded a live session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990 and contributed a cover version of " Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep " to the anti-poll tax album Alvin Lives ( in Leeds ).

Though Peel's supporters subsequently split from their colleagues over the issue of free trade in 1846, ultimately joining the Whigs and the Radicals to form what would become the Liberal Party, Peel's version of the party's underlying outlook was retained by the remaining Tories, who adopted his label of Conservative as the official name of their party.

Despite his earlier attitude, Lord Ashburton disapproved of Peel's free trade and opposed the Bank Charter Act of 1844.

Versions of the newly composed songs were recorded during several sessions for John Peel's radio show in 1988, while a live recording of " Hey " appeared on a free EP circulated with a 1988 edition of Sounds.

The interval of Sir Robert Peel's administration ( 1841 – 1846 ) was to the leaders of the Whig party a period of repose ; but Lord Clarendon took a strong interest in the triumph of the principles of free trade and in the repeal of the corn laws, of which his brother, Charles Pelham Villiers, had been one of the earliest champions.

After 1846 and the disintegration of the Tory party over Peel's adoption of free trade, Lord Lyndhurst did not attend parliament sessions as often, but he continued to take a lively interest in public affairs and to make speeches.

He was a vehement opponent in the House of Lords of Roman Catholic emancipation, and at a later date a leader of the opposition to Peel's free trade policy.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

Emma Peel's guise as " the Queen of Sin ", dressed in a black leather corset, would be the model for the Club's Queens, her first name even borrowed for White Queen Emma Frost.

With Peel's establishment of the Tamworth Manifesto the name Conservative had begun to be used, but he lost many of his supporters by repealing the Corn Laws, which caused the party to break apart.

The single would be placed at # 5 in John Peel's posthumous final Festive Fifty.

Rather, he was wedded to Sir Robert Peel's intention that the police be " filled from the bottom up ".

Their performance would be one of the last for Peel's program, as he died shortly afterwards.

However, in 1897, during a disappointing season, Peel's behaviour saw him disciplined by the Yorkshire club's committee over disagreements concerning pay, and other occasions when he had to be helped from the pitch.

The following year, Peel's producer suggested that instead of taking a poll ( which might simply be a retread of 1976's list ), Peel should simply compile a list of his favourite songs of the year.

The tracks have not worn well over time, but they were popular enough at the time for all three to be voted by listeners into John Peel's end of year Festive 50 ( see www. cocteautwins. com ).

The exposure they gained from the sessions enabled the group to have two songs to be voted into John Peel's Festive Fifty in both 1985 and 1986.

* The novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks by John Peel suggests that the very first Dalek seen is the one that exterminates Davros at the end of this story and eventually becomes the Dalek Prime mentioned in Peel's novelisation of The Daleks ' Master Plan and then the Dalek Emperor seen in Evil.

Neither novel was particularly well received by fans of the series, due in part to Peel's rewriting of Dalek history as had been seen on screen in the television series ( in particular the destruction of Skaro in Remembrance of the Daleks ), to bring their story more in line with Nation's wishes than with how television writers subsequent to Nation had depicted them.

To raise revenue Peel's 1842 budget saw the re-introduction of Income Tax, removed previously at the end of the Napoleonic War.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Cattle prices slumped sharply in 1842, and the blame was placed on the Government, and in particular Peel's tariff measures which had the effect of easing importation of foreign cattle and meat.

He served as Lord Privy Seal from 1842 to 1846 and as Lord President of the Council from January to July 1846 in Peel's government, when he reluctantly supported Peel's decision to repeal the Corn Laws.