...a policy of continental involvement, no doubt helped by his increasing attachment to Newcastle. It was through Newcastle’s influence that he was elected as MP for Seaford in 1747 and...
...age of fourteen; he pursued this whilst studying at the Glasgow School of Art in the evenings. In 1902 Bone settled in London and became a member of the New...
...Appointments to the diplomatic service were often based upon recommendations and who you knew. This resulted in British Consuls and Vice Consuls around the world being related in some way....
Students, Ambassadors and Tutors at the K+ Spotlight Summer School, outside King's College London's Great Hall. The role of Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street is a new one,...
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...then stopped off briefly in Poland where a new communist-dominated government had been elected in what Western powers felt were rigged elections. On 2 March, Martial Law was declared in...
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-1024x753.jpg)
...the newly-installed Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, served notice that: ‘The Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several Departments, to establish...
...arms, mounted guerrilla raids, blew up bridges, kidnapped Americans and cut off the ports from which sugar was exported, damaging the economy. Batista finally fled on New Year’s Eve 1958,...
...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...
...region, not in direct aggression, but that both Britain and the US feared the Russians sought to open a new Cold War front in the Middle East. He knew the...