The private life of Harold Macmillan
...public life – to observe different standards from those prevalent today in many circles. Macmillan perceived himself as speaking from inside the confines of the British political community, and was...
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The first woman of British parliament
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Parliament
...MPs. Such behaviour lost her friends and allies. Nancy was a woman of strong beliefs; the depth of these feelings means that her reputation today is somewhat tarnished. She was...
The woman in green who won the Khaki election
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...her political beliefs, her personal qualities would both attract and repel people today. She rejected the opportunity to live a quiet life of luxury in order to be politically active,...
George III and his Prime Ministers
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Professor Jeremy Black, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...and his greater willingness later in his reign to adapt to the realities of parliamentary monarchy – the constitutional system we still have today. In the 1760s, both King and...
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
One hundred years ago today US President, Woodrow Wilson, gave his famous speech to Congress articulating the Fourteen Points and principles that he believed should be the foundation of post-war...
Henry V’s ‘Norman Conquest’ on record 600 years on
...siege operations. Their role and duties to some extent resembled those of the Royal Engineers today. For instance a payment of £88 was made to John Janyn, master carpenter, and...
The British Embassy Bangkok: a look back before moving on
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Padej Kumlertsakul and Clare Patchimanon, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...I should view with distaste any interference with the vitality of the great tree”. Both monuments were later moved following the relocation of the embassy in 1926. Today, they stand...
History at the heart of diplomacy
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
What’s the Context? 4 April 1949: the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
How the West was won 65 years ago today the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in the State Department auditorium in Washington. An organisation was born—NATO—that remains a cornerstone of...
Prime Ministers and their Chancellors
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...four times Chancellor before he was four time Prime Minister – who developed the Exchequer into recognisably modern form. He did not envisage anything like today’s welfare state, being obsessed...