...1940 about 11,000 children were privately funded to travel overseas, many to the United States. Between July and September 1940, a further 3000 were sponsored by the government to travel...
...United Kingdom’s air services. At the time the military air arm of the UK was divided between the Royal Naval Air Service, which was, as the name suggests, part of...
...crew unloaded a C-54 Skymaster in a record time of 5 minutes 45 seconds. British and United States air crew take a tea break outside a maintenance hangar, probably at...
...peace. Woodrow Wilson, photo by Pach Brothers The speech When he declared war on Germany in April 1917 Wilson did so stating that the United States was an ‘associated power’...
...civilian population. For the Central Powers, there was no hope of a powerful, previously uncommitted ally joining their side with fresh supplies of men and materiel equivalent to the United...
...of the Poor Law. Three pandemic waves: weekly combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, United Kingdom, 1918 to 1919 Reference: PD-USGOV-HHS-CDC. Although the death rate in Britain over the course of...
...the integral, united, Armenian state. A major concern for the British Government was reviving the economy and returning men to production. There were logistical challenges about how many men could...
...Twitter @FCOHistorians [i] Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Vol. VIII. [ii] Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO), Series I, Vol. X, No. 27. [iii] DBPO, Series I, Vol....
...players and diplomats were determined that Western policy should remain as united as possible. This was especially true as the pace of change quickened with the fall of the Berlin...
...in the United Kingdom. The ‘We Were There’ campaign highlighted the contribution of ethnic minorities in the Armed Forces over the last 200 years. VE Day: 70 years on You...