Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...(1979 to 1982) and one of the most successful. He was lucky that in the early days she was primarily preoccupied with domestic reform and relatively new to international affairs....
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Concorde’s first British test flight, 50 years on
...Trubshaw, Concorde 002 was assembled by the British Aerospace Corporation in collaboration with the French company, Sud Aviation. As part of the 1962 international treaty, Britain and France jointly designed,...
Intelligence, Attlee and the Brook Report
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Dr Dan Lomas, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Past prime ministers
...the intelligence community is an essential one, something new archival releases have started to shed light on. Dr. Dan Lomas is Lecturer in International History at the University of Salford,...
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...She is the first British Prime Minister to visit the country in an official capacity. (Photo by Derek Hudson/Getty Images) International partners Britain was, of course, only one of many...
What’s the context? 25 June 1950: outbreak of the Korean War
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...would run out of fire brigades’.[v] The Korean War was the first serious conflict involving international armed forces since 1945. It was the first where the knowledge of the existence...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Nations Organisation had been established. But much remained for discussion at Potsdam, including European economic reconstruction, international waterways, Iran, Italian colonies, constitutional crisis in Belgium, elections in Greece, civil war...
Preparing for Helsinki: the CSCE Multilateral Preparatory Talks
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Forty-five years ago this month 35 nations signed the Helsinki Final Act following the 2-year Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). A politically binding agreement, the Final Act...
Maurice Hankey: Architect of Modern Government
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W J R Gardner, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, No 10 guest historian series
...of the minister concerned; when he left, so too did the papers. During the period of great domestic and international turmoil prior to the First World War, this system –...
When the Wall went up: Britain and the Berlin Crisis, 1961
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the perspective of British diplomats and military personnel on the ground in Berlin. They also look at events in the context of international diplomacy playing out between Britain, France, the...
William Pitt 'The Elder' (Whig, 1766-1768)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, and George Grenville, in November 1754. The marriage yielded five children, including William Pitt the Younger. Political comings and goings The worsening international situation created new...