...Secretary. The Private Office is the room next to the Foreign Secretary’s where private secretaries bring together all of the advice from the FCO ahead of submissions, meetings and phone...
...was built to provide more long distance telephone circuits and more television channels. Before going into more detail, I should explain that, before 1982, the Post Office enjoyed a state...
...Montfort’s historic Parliament in 1265. The Victorians celebrated Magna Carta as the foundation of liberty and democracy. This photograph from 1899 depicts King John and the barons at Runnymede in...
Once the Allies decided to land in Normandy, they identified the need to practice. The event itself would bring together the air, army and navy forces, as well as different...
An early start to evacuation is made by children of Myrdle School in Stepney. The children assembled at school at 5am on Friday 1 September 1939. This photograph shows evacuees...
...just a place of political business, it is also an opportunity to present world-class art to a wide ranging and international audience. A room on the first floor of Number...
...her time at Number 10, as invaluable to her in clothes and other personal matters as Churchill’s valets had been to him forty years before. Meetings began in the first-floor...
...died in office and a further nine died within two-and-a-half years of leaving Number 10. Overall since the eighteenth century, the average age of all ex-Prime Ministers on leaving Number...
To follow is a true story from David, the Facilities Manager at Number 10. You can also listen to his tale here I’m David and I work in Facilities Management....
...India would be attacked but calculated that increasing the number of troops stationed there to the levels necessary to resist any attack was prohibitively expensive. Britain had already faced the...