...before, was seen as a damaging blunder. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan, had vowed to resign if sterling were devalued, and was replaced by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins,...
...America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.' Commons Wikimedia Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...examples do occur, we can be sure that their creation was significant. One of the earliest deliberate post-Conquest uses of English by government dates from October 1258. It relates to...
...reconstituted his government as a wartime Coalition with Conservative and Labour support just eighteen months earlier, and his fall from power took many observers by surprise. No general election had...
...alongside the construction of an air raid shelter in the basement, had proved inadequate, leaving several rooms unstable.[ix] Many of the diseased walls were also significantly ‘out of true’ (i.e....
...tasked George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department with figuring out ‘what could be done to promote world recovery’. “We want coal, we want bread.” A demonstration...
On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed an agreement in St Petersburg which put in place the final piece of the alliance system which has widely been considered to...
...Navy personnel and merchant seamen killed as a result of enemy action were brought ashore and all of these deaths had to be registered by the local registrar of deaths....
...1917, shortly after his arrival at No.10. It would prove to be a precursor to an administrative model that continues to function today. David Lloyd George, 1906, The National Archives,...
...outbreak of the First World War, but only in certain clearly defined areas and with very limited opportunities as regards pay and promotion. In this regard it is interesting to...