...trade and migration, and interdependence between nations. New challenges have arisen in the form of climate change and international terrorism. The growth in international travel by holidaying Brits has seen...
...Timewatch programme on 29 September 1982.[1] This blog recalls the international and domestic factors that Clement Attlee's government had to weigh in the balance when coming to this historic decision....
...offered both to the business of government and international relations in the 1950s and 1960s, and to Macmillan’s view of the people and problems he encountered. Hitherto, only a few...
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
...or would not fight, while buying time for rearmament. The international context Many books have been written on all this, and indeed on Munich itself. But on the 75th anniversary,...
...on the international stage, Britain’s pre-eminent position seemed increasingly vulnerable: while it was one of the few European countries in which revolution had not struck in 1848, the changes in...
...work for peace and to delay, if not avoid war. Eden had longer professional experience in international affairs, but Chamberlain had been dabbling–many said interfering–in foreign affairs long before he...
...firms that would be able to compete on the international stage. The government wanted to avoid any notion that this would be ’nationalisation through the back door‘ so the IRC...
...with the Cabinet and the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool. But from the moment he left Number 10, British foreign policy was effectively in his hands. As Europe was still in...
...considered one of the most dangerous female spies of the First World War. Although she was a Dutch citizen who never lived in Britain, her story was more international and...