Gill Bennett

Formerly Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Editor of the FCO’s official history of postwar foreign policy, Documents on British Policy Overseas, 1995-2005. She was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2002-03 and formerly Assistant Editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939.

What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy

Posted by: Gill Bennett, Posted on: 22 November 2013 - Categories: Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series

Fifty years ago today, the 35th President of the United States of America was shot dead as his car drove through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. The brutal shock of the assassination made it one of the defining moments of …

What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement

Posted by: Gill Bennett, Posted on: 30 September 2013 - Categories: Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series

75 years ago today, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back from Munich after two days of tense discussions with the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. He had reached an agreement setting out a timetable and terms for the Nazi takeover of …