Sir Maurice Hankey, 1921 (Library of Congress) A century ago today, David Lloyd George, the new Prime Minister, held the first meeting of his War Cabinet. In the process he...
...MPs. Such behaviour lost her friends and allies. Nancy was a woman of strong beliefs; the depth of these feelings means that her reputation today is somewhat tarnished. She was...
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
...her political beliefs, her personal qualities would both attract and repel people today. She rejected the opportunity to live a quiet life of luxury in order to be politically active,...
One hundred years ago today US President, Woodrow Wilson, gave his famous speech to Congress articulating the Fourteen Points and principles that he believed should be the foundation of post-war...
...and his greater willingness later in his reign to adapt to the realities of parliamentary monarchy – the constitutional system we still have today. In the 1760s, both King and...
...siege operations. Their role and duties to some extent resembled those of the Royal Engineers today. For instance a payment of £88 was made to John Janyn, master carpenter, and...
...1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty Today, NATO is 70, its membership at 29. In recent years NATO’s remit and solidarity has been adapted, confirmed, extended and questioned, but...
Today a memorial service is held at Westminster Abbey for the former foreign secretary Lord (Peter) Carrington, who died last July aged 99. Over a life-time of public service, he...
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...