...arrive and were often written in code in case they were stolen by foreign spies. When his conduct at the 1814 Congress of Vienna was later challenged in Parliament, Castlereagh...
...At the bottom of the list of attendees at the 9 December War Cabinet meeting are two names: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir M.P.A Hankey, described as the ‘Secretary’; and Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dally...
...List’ and barred from the town’s theatres and cinemas. A total of 100 ‘wayward girls’ and 50 ‘prostitutes’ were cautioned, whilst a further 40 women were convicted of prostitution-related offences...
...of the Council under Charles I The List of Privy Councillors and the King in attendance at a meeting of the Council at Hampton Court on the 29th September 1634...
...era aides have been deployed on media management. Alfred Austin, a pro-Conservative journalist, wrote anonymous articles in the press to help Lord Salisbury promote his ideas, as well as providing...
...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...Anglo-Saxons!” The list of objections against Charles de Gaulle attending the battle of Hastings commemoration events in a minute from private secretary John Nicholls (National Archives: FO 924/1629) Another major...
...merely presenting a wish list to the US - eventually approved by Congress. A 1950 poster produced by the US government’s Economic Cooperation Administration to promote the Marshall Plan...
...purposes. Map of Central Asia, Foreign Office List, 1907 The agreement In 1901 Russia opened two consulates in Persia, investing in the Persian railways. The two countries shared a border...
...a more drawn out and sustained campaign of siege warfare. These accounts reveal substantial payments paid to specialist craftsmen whose construction and engineering capabilities were crucial to the prosecution of...