Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
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Teaching No.10 Downing Street's History
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...and the product of a partnership between No.10, the Policy Institute at King’s College London, King’s Widening Participation Department, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and award-winning charity The Brilliant Club. Having many...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Americans still thought it better to keep him in power as a bulwark against the USSR. The poor relationship between Eden and US Secretary of State Dulles, who thought Britain...
Lord Derby
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...some revenues of the Church of Ireland. Since this policy formed the basis of the new alliance between the Liberal party and O’Connell in 1835, Stanley and his followers were...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...political office after many failures. Opinions differ about his achievements, principles and legacy. Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli’s father was a free-thinking gentleman-scholar in London. His abandonment of the family’s Jewish religion...
What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989
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Professor Patrick Salmon, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the streets. The opening of the border between Hungary and Austria on 10 September was a milestone, allowing the thousands of would-be emigrants who had gone on ‘holiday’ to other...
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
...Power’ at the centre of British Government, and the important two-way relationship between No. 10 as a building and those that work and live within it. This blog series focuses...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-1024x753.jpg)
...developments and alleviate the burden upon them; and that could promote a better-coordinated government. This concept survived in various forms over the next hundred years. It remains relevant in government...
The No10 Guest Historian series
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...Downing Street. The H&P editors are Dr Andrew Thompson and Dr Ben Griffin, of Cambridge University, and Dr Andrew Blick, of King’s College London. H&P is a unique collaboration between...
The founding of the NHS: 75 years on
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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National Health Service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
On 5th July 1948 the National Health Service was established in the United Kingdom. Britain was the first western country to offer free at the point of use medical care...