Ask anyone to name Winston Churchill’s best-known speech and nine times out of ten they will answer: We shall fight them on the beaches. It’s not an exact quotation –...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...the effect of confirming, rather than undermining, Anglo-French friendship: both countries entered into ostensibly non-committal military conversations to plan how best they might cooperate if a war broke out and...
...escalating dispatches are the most thrilling thing on my feed!’; ‘creative and genuinely exciting’; ‘about the best thing I've ever seen on social media. Brilliant’. Also how it presented history...
...with France. He helped transform the entente cordiale from a colonial settlement into a close working relationship; a policy he thought to be in the best interests not only of...
...19 December convinced him that the process could not be slowed down: he and his fellow politicians would simply have to ride the storm as best they could. During the...
...value’. ‘Beating the Invader’ Britain was not invaded in the summer of 1940. However this did not signal an end of the debate over how best to communicate the threat....
...party to the secret project codenamed Tube Alloys were kept informed of developments, and British scientists and officials were involved with the planning process for the use of the bomb....
...off Whitehall, in London’s SW1 postcode, fronted by one of the world’s most iconic front doors, stands Number 10 Downing Street, the unique home and office of the British Prime...
...best to deal with it was a persistent source of tension. Once George had found an effective parliamentary manager in North, the political situation within Britain, and Parliament’s role within...