...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,...
...office under Perceval before joining the Admiralty Board in June 1810. Controversial Corn Laws When Castlereagh joined Lord Liverpool’s administration in 1812, however, Robinson was promoted to Vice-President of the...
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...
...restored Sir Edward Grey memorial For more on how the memorial came to be built see: http://issuu.com/fcohistorians/docs/fco896_gray_memorial_booklet_-_web_812e11dc3c95ff Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...an heir. Edith was significantly younger than Edward and may have seen him as something of a father figure – but she would certainly have known that the birth of...
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...
...State Papers Domestic Charles I Vol. 10: 1636-1637, p. 250. [2] PC 2/44, pp.104-105. [3] Ibid., p. 83; pp. 22-23. Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....