...E Hertslet in the compilation of his Map of Africa by Treaty, 1896, The National Archives: Catalogue Ref: MFQ 1/166 The Early Years The first Foreign Office Librarian was appointed...
...country? Map of the railways of South America and the International Trunk Lines. Source: The National Archives, Catalogue reference: FO 925/1600 Valparaiso in Chile was the major port for South...
...in 1912 on the tragic Terra Nova expedition – a voyage whose tragic end was compounded by the fact Scott was beaten to the South Pole by the technically superior...
...financial help from the US. But the Americans, mired in an escalating and apparently unwinnable war in South East Asia, were reluctant to bail the British government out again, though...
...arrive and were often written in code in case they were stolen by foreign spies. When his conduct at the 1814 Congress of Vienna was later challenged in Parliament, Castlereagh...
...shortage. In 1915, under the wartime coalition government of Herbert Henry Asquith, William Palmer, 2nd Earl Selborne, was appointed President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and charged with...
...British, than originally apparent. Portrait of the dancer, Mata Hari, executed for espionage. © IWM. Early years Born in the Netherlands in 1876, her father’s business failed when she was...
...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...
...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
...the refusal of the Dominions of Canada and South Africa to countenance a naval arms race with the US - hesitated to commit the resources. A decade later the building...