...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...3rd Viscount Palmerston Born 20 October 1784 Died 18 October 1865 Dates in office 1855-8, 1859-65 Political party Liberal Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...suggested inviting the incumbent French president Charles de Gaulle to commemoration events taking place in Britain. Signed photograph of General Charles de Gaulle, 1945 (National Archives: CN 4/19) Whilst this...
...but they were to cease the trade in slavery, north of the equator. Brazil declared their independence in November 1823 and Portugal eventually signed a Treaty, mediated by the British,...
...1807 he was elected MP for Ripon thanks to another relative). Robinson’s speeches attracted particularly favourable notice, one of 1812 being judged by one listener ‘the best young man’s speech...
1 December 2015 marks the 90th anniversary of the formal signing of the Locarno Treaties at the Foreign Office in London. Named after the town in Switzerland where the treaties...
...Office had no power to control memorials ‘about its walls’ called it ‘a wretched business’. In July 1936 Sir Edwin Lutyens submitted a scheme consisting of a portrait panel set...
...Edward was the eldest son of King Aethelred (‘the Unready’) from his second marriage to Emma, the sister of Duke Richard II of Normandy. This marriage had been arranged as...
The most detailed and literary diaries of all the occupants of 10 Downing Street were those kept by Harold Macmillan and William Gladstone. There are, however, two significant differences between...
...in Blackney, Norfolk for the quay to be urgently repaired and also that the river channel should be scoured as requested. The council also authorised travel abroad by issuing passes...