The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, contracted it on 12 September. It was not even discussed in Parliament until late October 1918. Yet the warning signs were already there. Chemists...
Foreign Office Historians
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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...Czechoslovakian reform movement. Evidence of supposed ‘Western plots’ was manufactured, while up to 20 ‘illegals’, posing as Western tourists, students and businessmen, were sent to Czechoslovakia in an operation codenamed...
The Battle of Amiens
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
General Ludendorff described 8 August as ‘the black day of the German Army’. Many British Historians consider it the final turning point in the First World War. To say that the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, and Field Marshal Haig …
Coal, Calories and Candy Bombers: the Berlin Airlift 1948-9
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...a new currency for all of Germany. This did not suit the Soviets, who had been stripping assets from East Germany as war reparations. In March, the Soviets argued that...
A very British catastrophe: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final journey
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Captain Robert Scott’s legacy will forever be an irreconcilable contradiction. At times, he has been venerated as an icon of Edwardian masculinity: a stoical, humble pioneer whose Antarctic expeditions discovered the Polar Plateau and made many significant contributions to scientific …
The raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend
...prefix their names with ‘Royal’. In 1919 they returned to their duties carrying civilians. Further reading London Gazette Despatches https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31189/supplement/251 Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
They seek him here… the life and death of the Red Baron
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Red Baron, courtesy of David Marks’ collection He was born in 1892 to an aristocratic Prussian Military family and at the age of 11 enrolled into military school. Graduating as...
What’s the context? George Brown resigns as Foreign Secretary, 15 March 1968
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...US government who gave him a hard time in Washington. Britain could not sustain a large military presence in the Far East and Middle East as well as Europe without...
What’s the context? The resignation of Anthony Eden, 20 February 1938
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...Mussolini also hoped to avoid war with Britain while achieving their own ambitions. Mussolini was agitating for recognition of his conquest of Ethiopia, and sought dominance in the Mediterranean; Hitler,...
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
...dealt with by Russia and the Central Powers. ‘Peace without victory’ At the time of the speech, the war appeared to be turning in favour of the Central Powers. As...