...tasked George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department with figuring out ‘what could be done to promote world recovery’. “We want coal, we want bread.” A demonstration...
On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed an agreement in St Petersburg which put in place the final piece of the alliance system which has widely been considered to...
...Navy personnel and merchant seamen killed as a result of enemy action were brought ashore and all of these deaths had to be registered by the local registrar of deaths....
...1917, shortly after his arrival at No.10. It would prove to be a precursor to an administrative model that continues to function today. David Lloyd George, 1906, The National Archives,...
...before, was seen as a damaging blunder. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan, had vowed to resign if sterling were devalued, and was replaced by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins,...
...activities at home and overseas, and to look for long-term counter-measures. Lacking Intelligence? Yet there remained significant intelligence gaps. In marked contrast to the successes enjoyed by British intelligence in...
...to have been responsible for the war, namely secret covenants, economic barriers to trade, lack of freedom of navigation of the seas, and national levels of armaments. Eight points elaborated...
...stations. The Chilean Government saw the advantages of steam travel and the new iron horses (as steam locomotives were referred to) from Britain, North America and across Europe. They opened...
...When George Brown stormed out of Downing St in the early hours of 15 March 1968, it was not the first time he had threatened to resign. On this occasion...
...fleet of ships and transports carrying an invasion force had crossed the English Channel to the shores of northern France. Just over 600 years ago, in the late summer of...