Running a government department - Victorian style
...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,...
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What’s the Context? President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, 8 August 1974
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...HarperCollins, 1995) Jonathan Schell, ‘Reflexions on the Nixon Years’, 6 articles in the New Yorker, 1975; cited here, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/06/30/the-time-of-illusion-v-the-script-and-the-players Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
Chaos and Censorship in the Second World War
...officers were deployed to newspaper offices and wholesale newsagents throughout Britain, roadblocks were erected in Fleet Street, and newspaper trains were stopped en route from London. The situation was widely...
Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle
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David Brown, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Parliament
...governments elsewhere and the rise of powerful new states on the continent threatened to disrupt the balance of power in Europe and create new imperial rivals. As everywhere the forces...
Gallipoli: 100 years on
April sees commemorations across the globe of the initial landings in a campaign centred on the Dardanelles Strait and the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. For Turkey, Australia and New Zealand...
History at the heart of diplomacy
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
...expanded into new areas of work, the biggest relating to the economic blockade of Germany. This developed in February 1916 into the Ministry of Blockade, nominally under the control of...
The Zimmermann telegram and Room 40
...Mexican Government. It indicated that the new policy on submarine warfare might bring Germany and the USA into conflict, and asked if, in such an event, Mexico would be willing...
The language of Government and the power of plain English
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Dr Sean Cunningham, Posted on:
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Communications, The Monarchy, The National Archives
When governments communicate, the medium can be as valuable as the message. In the modern age of instant news and response through social media, it is often easy to lose...
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
...wartime, the intelligence community had a hard time against the new Soviet threat. In March 1946, the JIC even admitted its reports were speculative given the ‘limited evidence’ on Soviet...