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What’s the context? Polish cryptologists reveal they have cracked the Enigma code, 26 July 1939
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Polish Signals Bureau sent a coded message to his French counterpart on 30 June that ‘there is a new development’. This was not a cryptologic breakthrough, but a willingness to...
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...to represent a person or an organisation do not attempt to log on using another user’s account do not make any commercial endorsement or promotion of any product, service or...
Prime Ministers and their Foreign Secretaries
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John Bew, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
On New Year’s Day 1814, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, set sail from Harwich for Holland with a challenging brief: to build a coalition with Russia, Prussia, Austria, and...
What’s the Context? D-Day, 6 June 1944
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-western Europe. After months of detailed planning, involving much discussion, a certain amount of friction between Allied military and civilian authorities, and...
‘A Call to the Women of Great Britain’: the formation of the Women’s Land Army
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Teresa Sanders, Posted on:
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First World War, Social history, The National Archives
...recruit, train and distribute these volunteers, his vision never came to fruition. Something drastic had to be done. A new beginning: the official formation and organisation of the Women’s Land...
Homosexuality at the Foreign Office
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James Southern, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Launching a New History Note This year marked the 50-year anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain and 26 years since the lifting of the bar on gay...
Mata Hari: the execution of an alleged international spy-mistress
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...
What’s the Context? 20 December 1917: formation of the Cheka, the first Soviet security and intelligence agency
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...source: newworldencyclopedia.org Before the October Revolution in 1917 that put the Bolsheviks in power in Russia, their long-exiled leader, Lenin, had insisted publicly that in a proletarian dictatorship there would...
The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...and his government. Why was the Delivery Unit created? When a newly elected Prime Minister arrives at No.10 Downing Street, the workplace and often home of the British Prime Minister,...