Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Parliament
In June 1850 the House of Commons began what A. J. P. Taylor would later describe as ‘the greatest debate on the principles of foreign policy in our parliamentary records’. The challenges facing Britain in the middle of the nineteenth …