...an even keel. It was a course that would be followed skilfully by Bevin in the next three years. Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...Portugal as an alliance “without parallel in world history”.[1] It is 630 years since a treaty of alliance between King Richard II of England and King John I of Portugal...
It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death. 1 Commander Lionel "Buster Crabb. By Coote,...
...approaches’. (Chilcot Report on the Iraq enquiry, vol. I, p. 24). Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser returns to cheering crowds in Cairo after announcing the nationalization of the Suez Canal...
...team of eleven players representing a de facto enemy of the British state would be allowed to play – in England – in the most famous sporting event on the...
...Santiago, Christopher R Nugent. Parish concluded the signing of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Argentina on 2 February 1825. These resulted in a promotion to Charge d’Affaires,...
...suggested inviting the incumbent French president Charles de Gaulle to commemoration events taking place in Britain. Signed photograph of General Charles de Gaulle, 1945 (National Archives: CN 4/19) Whilst this...
...outbreak of the First World War, but only in certain clearly defined areas and with very limited opportunities as regards pay and promotion. In this regard it is interesting to...
...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Room itself. In doing so, the Cabinet Office – and the Cabinet Secretary - gained a significant promotion in Whitehall’s ‘geography of power’. In...