...but prime ministerial responses to the Great War are, in fact, crucial to how we remember today in some quite unexpected ways. 'Great War generation' For each of the 23...
...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,...
...of David Marks’ collection The turn-around in Richthofen’s career took place in August 1916, when Boelcke was recruiting pilots for his new fighter squadron, Jagdstaffel Nr. 2 (Jasta 2). Boelcke,...
...institution-building. Europe was devastated physically and economically, with millions of people displaced; nationalist uprisings, civil wars and competition for scarce resources disturbed the peace on a global scale. The new...
...all those aboard, the Orkney Heritage Society yesterday unveiled a new commemorative wall next to the Kitchener Memorial, engraved with the names of all 737 men lost. One of those...
Students, Ambassadors and Tutors at the K+ Spotlight Summer School, outside King's College London's Great Hall. The role of Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street is a new one,...
...arms, mounted guerrilla raids, blew up bridges, kidnapped Americans and cut off the ports from which sugar was exported, damaging the economy. Batista finally fled on New Year’s Eve 1958,...
...then stopped off briefly in Poland where a new communist-dominated government had been elected in what Western powers felt were rigged elections. On 2 March, Martial Law was declared in...
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...the Army or the Navy”. He knew little of the ins and outs of air forces, however, and thus relied heavily on advice from the man who had been the...