From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
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Rebuilding No. 10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence, The National Archives, Uncategorized
...The prestige of the job, it seems, was reward enough for Mowlem. As the Minister of Works, Lord John Hope, informed the Prime Minister, the next best tender was expected...
What’s the context? US Secretary of State proposes a ‘Marshall Plan’ for the reconstruction of Europe, 5 June 1947
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...tasked George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department with figuring out ‘what could be done to promote world recovery’. “We want coal, we want bread.” A demonstration...
The death of Edward the Confessor and the conflicting claims to the English Crown
...might expect to see if the Confessor was attempting to promote him as a potential successor. The rival claims of Harold and William – which would of course be ultimately...
Margaret Thatcher and the Joint Intelligence Committee
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Ian B Beesley and Dr Michael S Goodman, Posted on:
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Civil service, Defence and conflict, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...in helping her to see the Committee’s reports in context. She left the Committee with views on how the material should best be presented for ministerial consumption, stating that ‘the...
Women in the Civil Service, WW1: winning the battle for acceptance
...was clerical work within the Civil Service. Women had worked in businesses and offices prior to the outbreak of the war. Ray Strachey, who is now perhaps best remembered as...
Lord Palmerston
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen, who made him Home Secretary instead (1852-5). The best man for the job The first year of the Crimean war went badly, with many criticisms of...
Disraeli's flowery history
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Tom Crewe, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...they seem an offering from the fauns and dryads of the woods’. Most importantly, both shared a strong sense of destiny and the conviction that they were best-placed to understand...
We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
...the role of Prime Minister The task facing the minister travelling with the King was a delicate one. On the one hand, he was in the best position to understand...
What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...plans but also to steal his thunder. Nevertheless, Hitler was well aware that the Munich agreement provided the best chance of achieving his aims without an early war. Chamberlain’s ‘piece...