...Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (1924), which aimed to tie together security and disarmament with compulsory arbitration of disputes. Both were rejected by the British government following...
...a threatening international context, the government struggled to find an effective foreign and military policy, or indeed a domestic policy capable of sustaining the war effort. Its most lasting achievement...
...rooms be redecorated. At the completion of the works, the three rooms were renamed the ‘Locarno Suite’, as a memorial to a supposed diplomatic triumph promising an era of international...
...indeed international, history from the 17th century onwards. T 29/26 Treasury minute book recording unlicensed boats selling ale to schoolboys The archives of the Treasury, the oldest government institution still...
...have all his ministers in the nature of clerks, not to give advice, but to receive orders’. Number 10 Downing Street - the official residence of the First Lord of...
...during an international gold crisis. His intemperate outburst in front of other ministers, accusing Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson of lying, crossed a line. This time he did not retract...
...the period after 1918, the proportion of women MPs hovered around four per cent of the total; it was only from the 1987 General Election that numbers began to rise,...
...South African economy. Sanctions may not have had much direct impact, but white South Africans felt deeply their isolation from international cricket and rugby. An Anti-apartheid protest demonstration taking place...
...its Prime Ministerial occupants over the centuries. Features range widely over personalities and private lives, domestic and international politics, and challenges and successes, providing new insights into how the central...
...Atkins, White House Photographer @Wikimedia Commons Forty years ago, on the evening of Thursday, 8 August 1974, the 37th President of the United States addressed the nation in a television...