Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...served Conservative governments from Churchill onwards and held a variety of posts, including: a minister in the departments of Agriculture, Energy and Defence leader of the House of Lords chairman...
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What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...departments, each with their own interests and little co-ordination between them. This lack of consultation within states was not just a problem in Britain, but also in France and the...
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...his programme of free socialist development, toleration of dissent and the secret ballot would not affect external policy, the Prague Spring appeared an unacceptable threat to Communist solidarity. But the...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...example in Afghanistan. Yet when we look round the world in 2019, other regions loom large on the global security landscape: for example, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific including...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...faced by servicemen readapting to society. Spending money on the dead was another point of contention. Many veterans argued that looking after the living would be a better legacy. One...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
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...
What’s the Context? Signing the Anglo-American Financial Agreement, 6 December 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
The American Congress and the American people have never accepted any literal principle of equal sacrifice, financial or otherwise, between all the allied participants. Indeed, have we ourselves? Lord Keynes,...
The woman in green who won the Khaki election
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...regret her actions. The officer commanding the court martial procedure, Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell, commuted her sentence to life in prison because she was female and the British Government...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-1024x753.jpg)
...policy for the Garden Suburb generally is difficult to detect. Overall the Garden Suburb seems to have proved useful to Lloyd George in helping him ensure that sensitive intersections between...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Americans still thought it better to keep him in power as a bulwark against the USSR. The poor relationship between Eden and US Secretary of State Dulles, who thought Britain...