...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...
...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...
...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...
...as a central organising machine and keep the minutes: the beginnings of today’s Cabinet Office. And, impinging directly on Number 10, Lloyd George chose his own secretariat, a novel group...
...Walpole with issues of policy, administration and election management. He constructed a communications operation to promote himself publicly, including using control of the post office to prevent the distribution of...
...after her election victory of 3 May. Margaret Thatcher arrives at Number 10 Downing Street in 1979 Thatcher had started a programme of visits to Government departments to see first-hand...
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
...in the House of Commons presents its accepted leader to the Queen after a General Election or a change of party leadership in the governing party. The next General Election...
...himself for use in his periodic letters to the sovereign. Even at the departmental level, many papers that would now be considered official would then be treated as private papers...
...in advance of a general election. The visit was not without its hazards. “No. 10 Downing Street is rather ancient,” Eisenhower recalled in his memoirs. “The British were planning to...