...owe that to Fortune and am very conscious of being in Fortune’s debt: it is still a long way from being an achievement.’[xvii] Erith’s approach to his work on Downing...
...view of life in the Second World War and has been reproduced on everything from champagne flutes to smartphone cases. Yet its popularity also obscures a more complicated history. This...
...numbers were regulated by Special Constables. The scientist and statistician, J.B.S. Haldane, estimated that the number of civilians taking shelter in the Tube approached a peak of 300,000, whilst a...
The early years of the First World War brought a large number of casualties to the army of Great Britain and despite the number of volunteers the government was soon...
...and motivating large numbers of men, experience which he put to good use in his new post. He inherited an organisation, the General Register Office (GRO), designed by his predecessor,...
...of the Board of Agriculture – was appointed Director of the Women’s Branch.[5] The objective was simple: ‘to procure, train and equip a large number of Women Land Workers able...
...itself met with less success. An early intervention by the Prime Minister concerned the number of staff to be housed in No. 10. In this case, civil servants at No....
...August 1918. It was an international effort of British and French forces with a single American division, and spearheaded by Australian and Canadian troops. The expensive lessons of the Somme...
...World War, but to so-called ‘Spanish Flu’. At the time, influenza was not a notifiable disease. Incidences did not have to be reported, either internationally or locally in Britain. Germ...
...(DBPO), covering the period after 1945. Valued by historians of international relations and their students, these series are a reminder of the important role that Britain has played in the...