Are you sitting comfortably?
...his targets were thinly veiled - to trail new political ideas which were to come to fruition later on in the Thatcher premiership. John Redwood, MP continues to use the...
Search results for VIPREG betwinner new promo code Oman
Mapping for War and Peace - Ordnance Survey’s maps and the First World War
...the backdrop of new civilian responsibilities – producing maps for land valuation and tax purposes – and the Edwardian love of exploration fuelling the growth in sales of leisure maps-...
Sir Robert Walpole (Whig, 1721-1742)
Posted by:
Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
-
Categories:
No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...an age when a new monarch typically meant a new administration. His approach to politics relied on careful management of the House of Commons and a tendency to avoid confrontation...
Keep Calm and Carry On – The Compromise Behind the Slogan
Posted by:
Dr Henry Irving, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Art and design, Defence and conflict, Home affairs
...issue of official news and censorship). It was only after the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) was asked to produce a secret report on foreign propaganda policy in...
Sir Muirhead Bone: First Official War Artist
...age of fourteen; he pursued this whilst studying at the Glasgow School of Art in the evenings. In 1902 Bone settled in London and became a member of the New...
If Twitter had existed in 1914: tweeting a crisis
...in a new way: ‘Really appreciate the efforts @WW1FO are going to capture the events of WW1 build up for a new generation on twitter‘; V cool exercise in immersive...
A private public record office: Tony Benn as a political diarist
Posted by:
Mark Wickham-Jones, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Finance and economics, Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, The National Archives
...‘The Prime Minister’s statement was an important new factor, both because it reflected his own judgement of the situation and because the consequences for the party and for the country...
What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989
Posted by:
Professor Patrick Salmon, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...made a confused statement about new regulations allowing citizens to travel to the West, which he said would come into effect ‘immediately’. Journalists took him at his word, the message...
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig 1742 to 1743)
...his desire to replace Walpole with Compton when he succeeded to the throne. Thus, on receiving news of his father’s death from Walpole in June 1727, the new King made...
Air-raid casualties in the First World War
Posted by:
Edgar Jones, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series
...aerial bombardment was a significant element in a new era of total warfare. Bombing campaign Air-raids over the UK during the First World War were sporadic and relatively small scale...