Sir Muirhead Bone: First Official War Artist
...English Art Club. In 1908 and 1910, Bone became internationally renowned as his work was shown in France and Germany respectively. In 1916 at a Red Cross sale of blank...
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They Think it’s all Diplomacy: North Korea, the Foreign Office and the 1966 World Cup
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James Southern, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...focal point of Cold War international relations. 19th July 1966, North Korea 1 v Italy at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, The unknown team from the Far East defeated the star-studded...
Henrietta Maria - the forgotten Queen?
The British Civil Wars has always interested me and International Women's Day prompted me to focus my blog post on a crucial, controversial, yet often overlooked, figure in British history,...
What’s the Context? US President announces the ‘Truman Doctrine’, 12 March 1947
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...East. But no concrete US proposals were forthcoming, and in Bevin’s absence at international meetings from October-December 1946, the issue hung fire. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton told the...
Clement Attlee: enigmatic, out of time – and formidable
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Robert Crowcroft, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...the Cold War Internationally, Attlee afforded his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, the freedom necessary to maximise Britain’s reduced global standing; the Labour government recognised the ambitions of the USSR and...
Sir Jeremy Heywood: 2012 - 2018
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Helen Wall, Posted on:
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Cabinet Confidential: interviews with cabinet secretaries, Cabinet Secretaries
...and had a spell at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. His first job in the civil service was as an Economic Adviser to the Health and Safety Executive....
Filling ‘the hole in the centre’: The No.10 Policy Unit – 50 years on
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...of state, a prime minister does not have a formal department. The machinery of government to support them is small in terms of staff numbers, compared to many government departments....
Rebuilding No. 10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence, The National Archives, Uncategorized
...alongside a number of sites across London, in response to a new Working Rule, which saw weekly working hours reduced, but with the caveat that tea breaks would no longer...
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
...Spring, Richthofen had recovered, and shot down a further 17 planes in March-April 1918, bringing his total number of victories to 80. His final encounter was over the Somme region...
The raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend
...number taken prisoner. The Germans lost twenty-four men. The bravery of the men involved, however, is undoubted. Eight Victoria Crosses were awarded for the Zeebrugge raid, and three for a...