...ErR/100/1 [xx] ‘Report on the design for the reconstruction of Nos. 10, 11 & 12 Downing Street’ [xxi] R. Erith, Handwritten note entitled ‘Downing Street’ Keep tabs on the past.Sign...
...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...
...a threat to sign a separate peace treaty with the GDR if no agreement was reached over Berlin. This separate treaty would end the occupation of East Berlin by Soviet...
Forty years ago, on 21 December 1979, an agreement was signed at Lancaster House. It brought an end to the illegal white-dominated regime that had ruled Rhodesia since the Unilateral...
...RAF Gatow, Berlin. Nearby, a sign displays the number of sorties carried out the day before and the overall total for the airlift. Copyright: © IWM. But the position of...
On Sunday, 20 February 1938, after two days of fraught Cabinet discussion, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that he must resign rather than agree to enter...
...the House of Commons or holding a significant domestic post, but his reputation was damaged by his failure to prevent the Crimean War or to manage it well. His parents...
...also be a sign of weakness 1. Cavell’s execution needs to be set in its wartime context to understand its particular resonance. Portrait of Edith Cavell, via Wikimedia Commons [Public...
...by Stalin and there was no sign that the Japanese leaders were ready to agree to surrender unconditionally. After the successful test at Alamogordo in New Mexico on 16 July...
...the War of the Polish Succession was the first sign of serious tension between him and Newcastle. Newcastle realised more quickly than Walpole the strength of public feeling that led...