...United States, promoting free trade and convertible currencies, certainly preferred a European bloc, including Britain, to a collection of awkward independent countries. During negotiations for the implementation of the Marshall...
...of a battle for the throne between his eldest surviving son, Edmund Ironside, and Cnut the Great of Denmark. Edmund though died shortly afterwards, and at his death, Cnut succeeded...
...Board of Agriculture was Captain Henry Greer, a Steward of the Jockey Club and a member of the Irish Turf Club, who had offered to perform the role free of...
It has been 30 years since Communist rule in Eastern Europe finally ended with mass demonstrations, an end to one-Party rule, free elections and the opening of borders. Illegal organisations,...
...confidential go-between, conveying messages between them. From the outset, Lloyd George assumed total control in a way unknown to Herbert Henry Asquith or his predecessors. He appointed a five-man War...
...the Conservative Party split over the repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws in 1846). Although the Cabinet was united in their advocacy of Free Trade, this rich political compound contained...
...in the way in which intelligence was collated and assessed by the JIC, stressing that assessment should be free from policy (or political) considerations. She also expressed a wish to...
The Yalta Myth Between 4 and 11 February 1945, while the Second World War still raged both in Europe and in the Far East, the ‘Big Three’—Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill—met...
...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...
...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...