Chaos and Censorship in the Second World War
Britain’s involvement in the Second World War began at 11am on 3 September 1939. The declaration came after eleven days of mounting international tension and was just one part of...
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Conscription and Conscientious Objection
...18 and 41 who was either unmarried or a widower without children (later Acts widened the range of men eligible and altered the age qualification). Exemption could be granted from...
A private public record office: Tony Benn as a political diarist
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Mark Wickham-Jones, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, The National Archives
...For over two years, the Labour administration, elected in October 1974 under Harold Wilson (Callaghan had become Prime Minister in March 1976), had confronted a series of unprecedented economic difficulties,...
What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989
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Professor Patrick Salmon, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...went through Checkpoint Charlie we were controlled in the usual way, checked by Soviet personnel, but beside us running through the checkpoint uncontrolled completely were thousands of Easterners who’d spent...
First World War Battlefields Tour
...began to feel quite emotional, as I have never known about any relatives of mine from this time period, let alone ones who fought and died fighting for our country....
Administrators of the British Empire
...own affairs. Photograph of the Chapel of St Michael and St George within St Paul's Cathedral. The National Archives: CO 447/126 War and the Colonies The 1806 appointment of...
Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...and his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, maintained this allegiance. Henry Pelham Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the...
Curzon's comeuppance
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Professor Jonathan Conlin, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...representatives in Paris were hardly consulted, being simply presented with a treaty and told to sign it. This treaty was signed in August 1920 in the renowned former French state...