As is tradition, with a new year comes new resolutions and the subsequent struggle to keep them!

To add some levity to the task of creating your own resolutions, we’re sharing this cheeky newspaper article from January 1889, which comprises a list of resolutions for the leading politicians of the day.

And in acknowledgment of the struggle to keep one’s resolutions, we’ve included this short piece from 1913.

Subscribe today to discover history as it happened