...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...
...Foreign Ministers who would dominate European diplomacy for the rest of the 1920s: Austen Chamberlain (United Kingdom), Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Left to right: Gustav Stresemann, Austen...
...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...
...Macmillan, in the runup to the 1959 general election. The President of the United States, visiting for an unprecedented and historic live television broadcast with the Prime Minister, was said...