...ranks, Major Attlee, Major Eden, Captain Macmillan, on the campaign trail. However, by-elections at the very start of their careers had demonstrated the practical limits of such rhetoric. In March...
...operatives whose activities were traced back to the Republican White House and eventually to the President himself, despite elaborate efforts at concealment and misdirection. Investigations revealed a complex web of...
...the public’s imagination and quickly attracted over 10,000 followers from around the world; including politicians, journalists, diplomats, overseas posts, foreign ministries, along with members of the public. Channel 4 News...
...civil service of ‘sheltering under the government umbrella’ while married men were being called up from elsewhere. The records of every department contain discussions on staffing, often including lists of...
...Not only did it carry a yearly salary of £11,500 (the Foreign Secretary was paid just £5,000) but the Ambassador also got to live at the Hôtel de Charost, the...
Britain’s involvement in the Second World War began at 11am on 3 September 1939. The declaration came after eleven days of mounting international tension and was just one part of...
...18 and 41 who was either unmarried or a widower without children (later Acts widened the range of men eligible and altered the age qualification). Exemption could be granted from...
...For over two years, the Labour administration, elected in October 1974 under Harold Wilson (Callaghan had become Prime Minister in March 1976), had confronted a series of unprecedented economic difficulties,...
...went through Checkpoint Charlie we were controlled in the usual way, checked by Soviet personnel, but beside us running through the checkpoint uncontrolled completely were thousands of Easterners who’d spent...
...began to feel quite emotional, as I have never known about any relatives of mine from this time period, let alone ones who fought and died fighting for our country....