Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
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A very British catastrophe: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final journey
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James Southern, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...left Britain at the height of its economic and military dominance; at the same time, the gruesome Boer War and Joseph Chamberlain’s debates over free trade symbolised the moral and...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.' Commons Wikimedia Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
Rebuilding No. 10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence, The National Archives, Uncategorized
...the men without a formal break in what was described as a ‘free tea’ solution – was rejected.[xv] By November 1961, it was reported that the Downing Street programme was...
What’s the context? US Secretary of State proposes a ‘Marshall Plan’ for the reconstruction of Europe, 5 June 1947
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...was not just an important market for American goods and services; its unity and prosperity was a strategic necessity. The war- and winter-ravaged continent appeared susceptible to Communist contagion. Free...
The General Register Office and the First World War
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Audrey Collins, Posted on:
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Civil service, First World War, The National Archives
...were supplied, the GRO could provide verification statements, free of charge. Certificate applications were at their peak of 108,958 in 1918, an increase of 30% on the rate for 1914....
Policy advice at No.10: the Lloyd George legacy
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...with the Departments have been very free and informal, the whole object of the relationships being to help the departments in getting matters to the attention of the Prime Minister...
South America and the power of steam
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...duty free. The indigenous population regarded the railway as intrusive, and vandalized the line. With nothing outside Uyuni but rusting engines and wagons, and sand covered tracks disappearing into the...
What’s the context? The resignation of Anthony Eden, 20 February 1938
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...free hand in Eastern Europe and Russia and for territorial changes brought about by force; both accepted that conflict with Hitler’s Nazi Germany was probably inevitable, but that delaying that...
The birth of the Royal Air Force
...to obstruct any proposal which it was felt impinged on their own freedom of action. Equally, the Prime Minister was frustrated by the inadequacy of the air defence but more...