...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...
...personal information in comments such as addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses or other online contact details, which may relate to you or other individuals do not impersonate or falsely claim...
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...
...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...
...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...
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....
...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...
...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...