...South African economy. Sanctions may not have had much direct impact, but white South Africans felt deeply their isolation from international cricket and rugby. An Anti-apartheid protest demonstration taking place...
...argued amongst themselves about including each other’s African territories in scope of NATO. There was an enduring tone of 19th century imperialism in the debate. But the African Conference in...
...(including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the West Indies) the African Commonwealth (including Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya) It is hard to see these groups as good indicators of ethnicity – for...
...departments, General, North American, West Indian, Australian, African, and Mediterranean. A sixth, the Miscellaneous department, was added in 1843. By 1827 when Bathurst retired the Colonial Office had a large...
The RAF owes its existence to a number of people but high amongst those deserving of credit are a South African Field Marshal, a Welsh politician and a Scottish Soldier....
...flying school, where many pilots were trained. Men from the Dominion air forces - Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South African - were incorporated into the Royal Air Force (RAF),...
...invite the French president to its own events. It was recommended that an alternative representative from the French republic be found and Monsieur Jean de Broglie was named as a...
...People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) swept south across the 38th parallel. This had divided the Korean peninsula as Japanese troops were driven out by the Allies at the end of...
...as a central organising machine and keep the minutes: the beginnings of today’s Cabinet Office. And, impinging directly on Number 10, Lloyd George chose his own secretariat, a novel group...
...Soviet bloc countries to travel freely to the West. They were followed by the special trains which took East Germans through their own country from Prague to the Federal Republic,...