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...overviews, medieval, modern and contemporary history. Some posts may be first-hand accounts, others commentary pieces. This blog builds on the monthly articles by guest historians previously available on the Number...
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Margaret Thatcher and the Joint Intelligence Committee
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Ian B Beesley and Dr Michael S Goodman, Posted on:
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Civil service, Defence and conflict, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...after her election victory of 3 May. Margaret Thatcher arrives at Number 10 Downing Street in 1979 Thatcher had started a programme of visits to Government departments to see first-hand...
Prime Ministers and Presidents: special relationships
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Professor David Reynolds, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...between the two countries. Especially meetings on home soil, here at Number 10. Transatlantic relations did not begin auspiciously. The United States was founded in a bloody war between 1776...
George III and his Prime Ministers
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Professor Jeremy Black, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...ministers confronted the ambiguity of a number of constitutional points, including the collective responsibility of the Cabinet and the degree to which the monarch could select any minister he wanted...
'Marginalia' in the Prime Minister's Office records
...On the other hand, perhaps you keep a handwritten diary, or you make your own ‘to do’ lists, or you may find yourself ‘doodling’ during a long work meeting... Fortunately...
Lord Wilson: 1998 - 2002
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Prime Minister's Office Digital Communications, Posted on:
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Cabinet Confidential: interviews with cabinet secretaries, Cabinet Secretaries, Civil service
Lord Richard Wilson of Dinton, GCB entered the Civil Service in 1966, joining the Board of Trade. He subsequently served in a number of departments including twelve years in the...
The Prime Ministers’ people: indispensable aides to three premiers
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...has always been a group effort. This point can be illustrated by considering the staffing arrangements and working practices of three celebrated Prime Ministers: Robert Walpole, William Gladstone and Winston...
The Silver Greyhound - The Messenger Service
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Civil service, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...is more likely they employed others to do their work for them. In 1641 'Forty messengers of the Great Chamber of Ordinary' were lodged in the Royal Palaces, under the...
What’s the Context? D-Day, 6 June 1944
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...was implemented, including those designed to indicate a possible Allied attack on Norway (FORTITUDE North) and in the Pas de Calais region (FORTITUDE South), to inflate in the enemy’s mind...
First World War Battlefields Tour
...This cemetery was very moving because of the sheer number of people buried in one grave. Unlike other war grave sites, Langemark Cemetery is smaller than most of the other...