Professor Patrick Salmon

What’s the context? Foundation of the German Empire, 18 January 1871

Professor Patrick Salmon, 20 January 2021 - FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series

This war represents the German revolution, a greater political event than the French revolution of last century. . . . Not a single principle in the management of our foreign affairs, accepted by all statesmen for guidance up to six …

What’s the context? The release of Nelson Mandela, 11 February 1990

Professor Patrick Salmon, 11 February 2020 - Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series

Nelson Mandela’s release on 11 February 1990, after 27 years in jail, symbolised the end of apartheid in South Africa. It was a tribute to one man’s endurance. It was also the result of decades of political, economic and social change that had brought apartheid to the brink of destruction.

The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on

Professor Patrick Salmon, 23 December 2019 - Foreign Office Historians

On 21 December 1979 an agreement ended the illegal white-dominated regime that ruled Rhodesia since 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe.

What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989

Professor Patrick Salmon, 7 November 2014 - Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series

...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,...

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