...ErR/100/1 [xx] ‘Report on the design for the reconstruction of Nos. 10, 11 & 12 Downing Street’ [xxi] R. Erith, Handwritten note entitled ‘Downing Street’ Keep tabs on the past.Sign...
...September 1971) Fifty years ago, Ambassadors representing the 4 Occupying Powers in Germany—France, the UK, US and USSR—signed an agreement on Berlin. This included documents concerning access, communications, and the...
...far as the eye could see". Crossing into East Berlin, he found a scene of intense activity. "I could feel considerable tension’, he recalled. ‘There were uniformed men everywhere, all...
...Margaret Thatcher and remains one of the most notable achievements of British diplomacy since the Second World War. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa and British Foreign Secretary Peter Carington sign the...
...autumn this was raised to 5,000 tonnes. Of this, food accounted for around 2,000 tonnes with coal the majority of the rest. The Soviets also restricted the electricity supply to...
On Sunday, 20 February 1938, after two days of fraught Cabinet discussion, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that he must resign rather than agree to enter...
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), by Samuel Cousins George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen, was Prime Minister of one of Britain’s rare coalition governments, despite never sitting in...
...to encourage recruitment and stiffen public resolve against German barbarity. A Foreign Office official, however, suggested that her death, while ‘part and parcel’ of a German ‘policy of frightfulness’, might...
...an important element in the context of dropping the bombs. Allied intelligence, from both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and other sources, indicated that the Japanese were unlikely to surrender as a...
...July 1693, he was the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, first baron Pelham of Laughton, and his second wife, Lady Grace Holles. He was educated at Westminster School and matriculated...