The Cabinet Confidential series
...Now for the very first time five former cabinet secretaries – Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O’Donnell will be providing new and compelling material about...
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We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
...north-western corner of the Holy Roman Empire (now part of Germany). Born in 1660, George I had considerable political experience in, and an obvious affection for, the land of his...
What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...complex, but also surprisingly contemporary. United States A Democratic President faced fierce Republican opposition in both domestic and foreign policy. Roosevelt’s New Deal programme of social and economic measures to...
A ghost story from Number 10
...Dining Room, shortly after I started. Small Dining Room Number 10 We were doing a recruitment exercise for a new member of staff and I had booked the Small Dining...
What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...alive at the time remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. Personally, I was in a cinema in London watching the newly-released West...
Clement Attlee: enigmatic, out of time – and formidable
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...full flow, he simply said ‘No’. Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19) It is difficult to envisage a twenty-first century politician passing up the opportunity to promote their...
What’s the Context? 4 April 1949: the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...heralding a new era of security. In his speech at the signing ceremony President Truman said he believed that if NATO had been in existence in 1914 or 1939 it...
Henrietta Maria - the forgotten Queen?
...Even pre-Civil War, Henrietta Maria, being a French Catholic, was not a popular figure in England. However, her unpopularity reached new heights in 1642, as she was now seen as...
Wartime in Paris: an Ambassador tweets
Dr Richard Smith reveals an exciting new Twitter project by the FCO Historians In 1914 Sir Francis Bertie held the plum posting in the British Diplomatic Service—the ambassadorship to Paris....
First World War Battlefields Tour
...museums and battle sites, I was able to share my experience with the new friends that I made, explore deeply about the history of the war, and truly empathise with...