...according to historian Max Jones, became ‘the new orthodoxy’, and attacking him was ‘something of a national pastime since Huntford’s intervention’. Reputation restored Lord Curzon and Roland Huntford both had...
...a boon for supporters of the supersonic project. ‘An ungainly goose’ Although the crowd was excited, the reaction in the media was unflattering. The New York Times dismissed Concorde as...
...again Britain, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George: to punish Germany, as per the mandate on which the new government had been elected, but also wanted Germany to be...
...he joined the Allied Relief Commission to Poland. In May 1919, he travelled to the Baltic as part of the mission there. The newly formed Baltic states’ independence was under...
...fuel and shelter. The new ‘world organisation’, the United Nations, was planned but not up and running. Peacemaking machinery, including the new Council of Foreign Ministers, soon exposed dangerous cracks...
...news. The Ems Telegram, 13 July 1871, original version (GHDI image 1391) The Ems Telegram, 13 July 1871, Bismarck’s edited version (GHDI image 1392) For centuries, Germany had been a...
...answer for the new government lasting more than 6 weeks. She smilingly reminded me of this at an audience 6 years later"’[1] Macmillan found that "the Queen was a great...
...1917, shortly after his arrival at No.10. It would prove to be a precursor to an administrative model that continues to function today. David Lloyd George, 1906, The National Archives,...
...public life – to observe different standards from those prevalent today in many circles. Macmillan perceived himself as speaking from inside the confines of the British political community, and was...
...painted by John Singer Sargent in 1908. Source: http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/766112 They moved in high social circles. Nancy used these connections to steer Waldorf away from his family’s interests in newspapers, which...