The World’s War in Europe
...British Empire fell into two distinct parts: the self-governing Dominions - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, and those colonies that were wholly or partly governed from London, including...
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Gallipoli: 100 years on
April sees commemorations across the globe of the initial landings in a campaign centred on the Dardanelles Strait and the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. For Turkey, Australia and New Zealand...
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...
50 years of collecting ethnicity data
...of the size of the White and non-White populations. People were classified according to whether they were born in: the Old Commonwealth (Australia, Canada and New Zealand) the New Commonwealth...
South America and the power of steam
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...and entrepreneurs arrived to make their fortunes. Welsh, Irish and Germans emigrated to make new lives in the newly opened markets and the cities. The SS Minosa1 left Liverpool in...
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? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...prestige of European imperialism. Loyalty and deference to the British Empire in Asia and the Pacific crumbled. Even New Zealand and Australia, traditionally the most loyal of the British Dominions,...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...was uncertain. The US still controlled Japan, now regarding it as less as a security threat than as potential help against the USSR. Australia and New Zealand, though not included...
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...