Gift Horses and Horoscopes
...is an “Edition de Luxe” of which only 325 copies were privately published, and it was “printed on handmade unbleached Arnold linen fibre with private watermark” for Colonel W. Hall...
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President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
...to have been responsible for the war, namely secret covenants, economic barriers to trade, lack of freedom of navigation of the seas, and national levels of armaments. Eight points elaborated...
Britain and an independent South America
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Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...Santiago, Christopher R Nugent. Parish concluded the signing of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Argentina on 2 February 1825. These resulted in a promotion to Charge d’Affaires,...
Lord John Russell, later Earl Russell
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...religious reforms contributed to its defeat at the 1841 election. An era of volatile politics Russell became Prime Minister when Sir Robert Peel’s Tory government fell apart in 1846. However,...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...speculation in South America, and his first novel was condemned for its immaturity and crude character assassinations of society figures. After a nervous breakdown, he produced a stream of novels...
Lord Derby
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...now shut out of progressive politics and moved towards Peel’s Conservative opposition. When Peel formed a government in 1841 he made Stanley Colonial Secretary, but there were fewer excitements in...
What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...an even keel. It was a course that would be followed skilfully by Bevin in the next three years. Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
History’s Unparalleled Alliance: the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Windsor, 9th May 1386
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...Portugal as an alliance “without parallel in world history”.[1] It is 630 years since a treaty of alliance between King Richard II of England and King John I of Portugal...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death. 1 Commander Lionel "Buster Crabb. By Coote,...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...approaches’. (Chilcot Report on the Iraq enquiry, vol. I, p. 24). Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser returns to cheering crowds in Cairo after announcing the nationalization of the Suez Canal...