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Hugh O’Beirne and the sinking of HMS Hampshire: a diplomat remembered
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...all those aboard, the Orkney Heritage Society yesterday unveiled a new commemorative wall next to the Kitchener Memorial, engraved with the names of all 737 men lost. One of those...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...officials do not come well out of it. The Crabb episode provoked much discussion, including with the JIC, about new procedures for obtaining clearance for intelligence-gathering operations. Bridges himself felt,...
The Changing Face – and Faces – of Number 10 Downing Street: the geography of power since 1945
...off Whitehall, in London’s SW1 postcode, fronted by one of the world’s most iconic front doors, stands Number 10 Downing Street, the unique home and office of the British Prime...
What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...institution-building. Europe was devastated physically and economically, with millions of people displaced; nationalist uprisings, civil wars and competition for scarce resources disturbed the peace on a global scale. The new...
Sir Edward Grey: a fitting tribute
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...memorial in the precincts of either Westminster Abbey or the Palace of Westminster, was dashed by a new rule which barred such memorials until ten years after a person’s death....
The birth of the Royal Air Force
...the Army or the Navy”. He knew little of the ins and outs of air forces, however, and thus relied heavily on advice from the man who had been the...
Henry V’s ‘Norman Conquest’ on record 600 years on
...time Henry successfully subjugated the Norman lands that his royal ancestors had lost two centuries earlier. A New Strategic Approach The invasion marked a watershed from previous campaigns launched against...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe. The Lancaster House Agreement represented an early diplomatic success for the new Conservative government of...
They seek him here… the life and death of the Red Baron
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...of David Marks’ collection The turn-around in Richthofen’s career took place in August 1916, when Boelcke was recruiting pilots for his new fighter squadron, Jagdstaffel Nr. 2 (Jasta 2). Boelcke,...