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...
9 December 1916: David Lloyd George introduces minuted Cabinet meetings and instigates the Cabinet Office
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Dr Andrew Blick, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Cabinet Secretaries, Civil service, Defence and conflict, First World War
...General Robertson (Chief of the Imperial Defence Staff). Important innovation The occasion was important for a number of reasons. In the midst of the Great War, various pressing military matters...