...a major triumph for Pitt, which saw the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland come into being on 1 January 1801. ‘Oh my country! How I leave my country!’ Pitt...
...the Conservative Party split over the repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws in 1846). Although the Cabinet was united in their advocacy of Free Trade, this rich political compound contained...
...1593 (The National Archives, Catalogue reference: SP 112/91/25). On 23rd July, Jane Toster and her two daughters were granted a pass to travel to the Dutch United Provinces to see...
...a friendship with the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and promotion to the United Kingdom peerage in 1814. But he did not hold office again until 1828, devoting himself instead...
...world organisation, the United Nations, already seemed unlikely to fulfil the aspirations of its Charter. The wartime Allies−Britain, the US and the USSR−had lost their common purpose and with it...
...the midst of Cold War tension could not afford to put any further pressure on its relationship with the United States by altering this position. Moving the tournament altogether...
...to block trade with Germany. Neutrality was still important to the United States at this point - it was the platform on which President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in November...
...complex, but also surprisingly contemporary. United States A Democratic President faced fierce Republican opposition in both domestic and foreign policy. Roosevelt’s New Deal programme of social and economic measures to...
...and Jordan, a show of force intended to deter Nasser from becoming closer to Moscow. Meanwhile, the UK Government under Harold Macmillan was preoccupied with unsuccessful efforts to promote a...
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...