...in southeast England. When functioning properly, the cables and the several antennae to which they were linked, allowed the station to receive long-distance radio signals. A Labrador called Rex was...
...tweeting, in real time, extracts from Foreign Office telegrams, dispatches and letters to give a feel for how the sequence of events unfolded and how the crisis was viewed from...
...did not count as ‘proper persons’ in the eyes of the law. It had long been established that they could not vote in parliamentary elections or serve on juries for...
...blog post marks the 75th anniversary of this significant cultural artefact by exploring its place in the British government’s preparations for the Second World War and drawing attention to the...
...photography with its ‘endless shots of soldiers going over the top or sitting in trenches’ (Cumming, 1978, p.468). It was also thought that his international reputation would help promote Britain’s...
...ranks, Major Attlee, Major Eden, Captain Macmillan, on the campaign trail. However, by-elections at the very start of their careers had demonstrated the practical limits of such rhetoric. In March...
...operatives whose activities were traced back to the Republican White House and eventually to the President himself, despite elaborate efforts at concealment and misdirection. Investigations revealed a complex web of...
...civil service of ‘sheltering under the government umbrella’ while married men were being called up from elsewhere. The records of every department contain discussions on staffing, often including lists of...
...London – but, following a quarrel with his elder brother, Compton shifted his affections to the Whigs. He sat as MP for Eye in Suffolk from 1698 to 1710 and...
...Not only did it carry a yearly salary of £11,500 (the Foreign Secretary was paid just £5,000) but the Ambassador also got to live at the Hôtel de Charost, the...