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Arthur Foote. Air & Gavotte: Air SIREDWARDHEATH 371 views Bela Banfalvi & Budapest Strings Janos Balint, Bela Banfalvi, Lajos Lencses, Budapest Strings, Reinhold Friedrich, Zoltan Gyongyossy & Gyula Csetenyi
2010 Big Sing : St Bede's College, Christchurch Town Hall,She's Got A Way SIREDWARDHEATH 1,633 views Beadean Choir sing 'She's Got A Way' by Billy Joel arr. Mac Huff with solo by Jordan Toa at Big Sing 2010 on 11 June at Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch, Canterbury, Ne...
Big Sing 2010: Cashmere High School, Christchurch Town Hall SIREDWARDHEATH 1,282 views Cashmere voices sing 'Anything Goes' by Cole Porter arr. Philip Kern with solo by Becky Howie.Big Sing 2010 on 11 June at Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch, Canterbury, ...
Big Sing 2010: Christchurch Boys' High School, Christchurch Town Hall SIREDWARDHEATH 1,761 views CBHS Choir sing 'The Trolley Song' by Martin & Blane arr. Gwyn Arch at Big Sing 2010 on 11 June at Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Directed b...
GALA OPERA PERFORMANCE TO CELBRATE BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE COMMON MARKET Sir Edward Heath SIREDWARDHEATH 139 views GALA OPERA PERFORMANCE TO CELBRATE BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE COMMON MARKET Wednesday, January 03, 1973
Sir Edward Heath Conducts Broadstairs Carols 17-12-72 SIREDWARDHEATH 280 views Sunday, December 17, 1972,Broadstairs, Kent
Edward Heath PM in Northern Ireland 16.11.1972 SIREDWARDHEATH 594 views 16/11/72 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, EDWARD HEATH VISITS BELFAST Thursday, November 16, 1972 British Prime Minister, Edward greeted by Willie Whitelaw, Secretary of State fo...
British PM Edward Heath Speech at the Conservative General Council 3.4.1971 SIREDWARDHEATH 930 views 3.4.1971 - British PM Edward Heath gives a speech at the Conservative General Council warning against wage claims and outlining responsibilities of unions and management to...
Big Sing 2009: Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch Town Hall SIREDWARDHEATH 1,847 views CBHS Choir sings When The Saints Go Marching In with the CBHS Dixie Band. Big Sing, Canterbury regionals, New Zealand 2009 5th June . Conducted by Annabel Harrold. Piani...
Sir Edward Heath Dedication II SIREDWARDHEATH 687 views Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the ...

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Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession represented a change in the leadership of the Conservative party, from aristocratic figures such as Lord Home to the self-consciously meritocratic Heath, and later, Margaret Thatcher.

He is remembered as being the Prime Minister who took Britain into the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973
Early life
Ted (or "Teddy" as he was known as a young man) Heath was born the son of a carpenter and a maid from Broadstairs in Kent. His father was later a successful small businessman. He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate and in 1935 with the aid of a county scholarship he went up to study at Balliol College, Oxford. A talented musician, he won the college's Organ scholarship in his first term (he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Keble College, Oxford), which enabled him to stay at the University for a fourth year; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1939. In later life Heath's peculiar accent, with its "strangulated" vowel sounds, was a source of much comment; Heath's biographer John Campbell speculates that, unlike his father and younger brother, who both spoke with Kent accents, his speech must have undergone "drastic alteration on encountering Oxford".

While at university Heath became active in Conservative politics. However, on the key political issue of the day, foreign policy, he opposed the Conservative-dominated government of the day ever more openly. His first Paper Speech (i.e. a major speech listed on the order paper along with the visiting guest speakers) at the Oxford Union, in Michaelmas 1936, was in opposition to the appeasement of Germany by returning her colonies, confiscated after the First World War. In June 1937 he was elected President of the Oxford University Conservative Association as a pro-Spanish Republic candidate, in opposition to the pro-Franco John Stokes (later a Conservative MP). In 1937-8 he was also chairman of the national Federation of University Conservative Associations, and in the same year (his third at University) he was Secretary then Librarian of the Oxford Union. At the end of the year, however, he was defeated for the Presidency of the Oxford Union by another Balliol candidate, Alan Wood, on the issue of whether the Chamberlain government should give way to a left-wing Popular Front. On this occasion Heath supported the government.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement 'Independent Progressive' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the October 1938 Oxford by-election. Heath, who had himself applied to be the Conservative candidate for the by-election,[1] accused the government in an October Union Debate of "turning all four cheeks" to Hitler, and was elected as President of the Oxford Union in November 1938, sponsored by Balliol, after winning the Presidential Debate that "This House has No Confidence in the National Government as presently constituted". He was thus President in Hilary Term 1939; the visiting Leo Amery described him in his diaries as "a pleasant youth".

As an undergraduate, Heath travelled widely in Europe. His opposition to appeasement was nourished by his witnessing first-hand a Nazi Party Nuremberg rally in 1937, where he met top Nazis Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler at an SS cocktail party. He later described Himmler as "the most evil man I have ever met". [2] In 1938 he visited Barcelona, then under attack from Spanish Nationalist forces. In the summer of 1939 he again travelled across Germany, returning to England just in time before the declaration of war

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