Gift Horses and Horoscopes
...Walker offered his bloodstock at Tully in County Kildare to the British Government for the purpose of founding a National Stud. It was a significant offer; 6 stallions, 43 brood...
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President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
...without a victory would prove impossible to both sides as it would signify to their peoples that the war had been for no purpose. Europe 1919 (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) On 11 February...
Britain and an independent South America
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...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
...party in 1834-5. As Home Secretary after 1835 he reformed the criminal law, and as a result executions only took place for murder and high treason. He promoted the Education...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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...Earl of Beaconsfield Born 21 December 1804 Died 19 April 1881 Dates in office 1868, 1874-80 Political party Conservative Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
Lord Derby
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...Geoffrey Smith Stanley 14th Earl of Derby Born 29 March 1799 Died 23 October 1869 Dates in office 1852, 1858-9, 1866-8 Political party Conservative Keep tabs on the past. Sign...
What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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...impossible for the Soviets to forget Allied intervention in the Russian civil war after 1917, it was impossible for Britain and America to forget that Stalin had signed a pact...
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
...is significant because it effectively cemented and strengthened ties between the two kingdoms and helped convert a fledgling alliance into a more permanent legacy of history. The terms of the...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...provide the kind of reassurance ministers were seeking that nothing like this episode could ever happen again. 6 Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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...Egyptian leader would not work with the West or promote an Arab-Israeli settlement, and Britain should realign its policy accordingly. Britain’s oil supplies and trade routes to the southern hemisphere...