The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...avoiding crowds, to more questionable ones, such as eating lots of porridge and cleaning teeth regularly. Sir Arthur Newsholme Reference: NPG x65720 Newsholme’s actions seem negligent with the benefit of...
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The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...ending, at least in the victorious countries. The armistice was agreed at 5.10am on 11 November to come into effect at 11am. The news was conveyed around Europe within the...
What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...be one of the main powers at the conference, this inevitably meant formal proceedings had to be delayed until a new government had been formed. Lloyd George was re-elected, which...
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....
What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
...threatened by Japanese plans for a Pan-Asian ‘new order’, while the USA urged support for the beleaguered Chinese nationalists in the bitter Sino-Japanese conflict. The military challenges were diverse and...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...in the parade, and many others paid their respects there, including the widows of the fallen. The public response was so profound that the newspapers quickly started asking whether a...
Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...to the Dominions, particularly to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, before the risk from torpedo attack at sea was deemed too great. This comparatively short-lived and voluntary scheme was one...
Diplomatic countdown to war
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War
...been less welcome if the British Government knew how strong his connections were to Hermann Göring, President of the German Parliament. Hermann Göring in Nazi Party uniform wearing the order...
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...of George Canning, often presented as the embodiment of a new liberal Toryism, was one factor in his retirement from politics in 1824, two years after he ceased to be...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...into his Presidency), Churchill and Stalin could congratulate themselves on a major achievement. Yet they knew the situation on 8 May 1945 remained precarious and the future uncertain. Fighting continued...