King Charles I’s most loyal Privy Council
...and policy was channelled. Yet many individuals today do not realise what the Privy Council is and the central role it has in fact played in our nation’s history. This...
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Maurice Hankey: Architect of Modern Government
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W J R Gardner, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, No 10 guest historian series
Maurice Hankey (1877-1963) deserves to be far better known than he is today as the principal architect of the Cabinet Office in modern British government. It would be wrong to...
What's the Context? Signature of the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Past prime ministers, Second World War, What's the context? series
...of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation to Britain’s imperial legacy, Russian suspicions of Western intentions and transatlantic differences over trade. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on...
Mapping for War and Peace - Ordnance Survey’s maps and the First World War
...series we all take for granted. Ordnance Survey, however, has a surprising history because, as Britain’s national mapping authority, today’s suppliers of business intelligence were originally charged with gathering military...
From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
The National Health Service (NHS) is seventy years old today. Founded on 5 July 1948 by Clement Attlee’s Labour government, the NHS is now the most celebrated welfare institution in...
The Silver Greyhound - The Messenger Service
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Civil service, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...the Messenger service would last until the 20th century. Today The Corps of Queen's Messengers still exists today, as not everything can be sent by electronic or registered mail. In...
Are you sitting comfortably?
...then I'll begin. Could a government document ever have been a potential contender for the ‘Jackanory’1 treatment? Let me explain. Today, 3 January, as part of the transition to a...
The Institution of Prime Minister
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...the real head of the executive, an active political force concerned with the day-to-day issues of government to a monarch with a veto – the right to dismiss the Prime...
Number 10 under Lloyd George 1916-1922
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Kenneth O Morgan, Posted on:
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Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...as a central organising machine and keep the minutes: the beginnings of today’s Cabinet Office. And, impinging directly on Number 10, Lloyd George chose his own secretariat, a novel group...
Thatcher and the glass ceiling
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Dr Ben Griffin, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Social history
...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...