Administrators of the British Empire
...William Windham, as Secretary of State saw him separate the War and Colonial Offices. A new Under Secretary was appointed to oversee the Colonies, with a separate military Under Secretary...
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Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...and his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, maintained this allegiance. Henry Pelham Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the...
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...within the ministry and George III’s promotion of John Stuart, Earl of Bute , led first to Pitt’s and then Newcastle’s resignation. Newcastle returned briefly to office as Lord Privy...
William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire (Whig, 1756-1757)
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...reached between Newcastle, Pitt and George II. By April 1757, George had grown tired of waiting for Newcastle to come back into the fold. He sacked Pitt, provoking a protracted...
Harriet Arbuthnot and ‘the vortex of politics’
...in the early 19th century; and not the least part of its extraordinariness lies in the fact that, in this male-dominated political world, the author was a woman. Harriet Arbuthnot...
What’s the Context? 4 February 1945: the Yalta Conference opens
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...train to Yalta from Moscow. He controlled the physical aspect of the Conference, which included bugging his foreign guests’ quarters. This meant he knew some of what they were thinking:...
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...was limited. His interests, instead, were in improving his estates and horse racing. Rockingham remained attached to Newcastle and thought of resigning his post in the royal household, following Newcastle’s...
The women of the Second World War
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Defence and conflict, Second World War
...this time with their photographs and paintings. Here Cecil Beaton captures a welder working on the deck of a new ship in Tyneside, 1943. ©Crown Copyright IWM A member of...
What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...the European endgame Sir Winston Churchill. Image by United Nations Information Office, New York [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsPrime Minster Winston Churchill and Commander in Chief Field Marshal Montgomery repeatedly...
“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...STAT 20/290) With the fruition of the women’s suffrage movement leading to women over 30 gaining the vote, the pressures of a new female electorate allowed progressive changes in law....