The birth of the Royal Air Force
...English Channel and the Royal Navy led to a Welsh politician, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, appointing a South African General [later Field Marshal], Jan Christian Smuts, to investigate the...
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They seek him here… the life and death of the Red Baron
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...of David Marks’ collection The turn-around in Richthofen’s career took place in August 1916, when Boelcke was recruiting pilots for his new fighter squadron, Jagdstaffel Nr. 2 (Jasta 2). Boelcke,...
The raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend
...British ships. German submarines posed a constant threat to British vessels in the Channel. Throughout the war, they sank a third of Allied merchant shipping. This led to food rationing...
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
...the Polar Plateau and made many significant contributions to scientific knowledge. Elsewhere, he is portrayed as a charlatan whose bungling incompetence cost the lives of six men, including his own,...
From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...Many working men possessed health coverage under the 1911 National Insurance Act, which provided access to a ‘panel’ doctor for a contribution from their weekly wages. ‘Dependents’ (wives and children),...
The Battle of Amiens
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...materiel he already had. Haig was convinced that the war could only be won on the Western Front; Lloyd George thought otherwise. David Lloyd George Despite their differences and mutual...
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...economic growth and industrial discontent in the USSR. Yet meanwhile, the Soviet Union was pursuing a parallel policy of engagement with the West in areas like trade, proposals for a...
The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...press was not subject to the same level of censorship as the press in the belligerent countries. News of an epidemic appeared in the headlines of Madrid papers in May...
The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...war for most, this was not true for all and there was still fighting and dying after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918....
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
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