...counsel to the king. Their meetings were mostly frequently referred to as ‘councils’, although in the reign of Henry II we do see some early use of the French term...
...Ministry of Information, by contrast, wanted to ‘rouse the public’ by including an instruction for anyone behind enemy lines to: ‘Do everything in your power to render [the German troops’]...
...be used to illustrate Macmillan’s political techniques, such as his use of the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 to drive the resumption of nuclear information sharing with...
...finally purchased by the British Government for £47,625 (equivalent to £3m-£4m in current cash terms, depending upon the calculator used). The first Director of the National Stud appointed by the...
...experience and was nicknamed the ‘Who? Who?’ ministry (supposedly because the Duke of Wellington appeared not to recognise the names of the new ministers when they were announced). Derby was...
...which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan temporarily decamped to Admiralty House. The central issue that this project seeks to investigate is how the period’s ten different Prime Ministers used the building’s...
...St James (The National Archives: E 30/310) Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and...