1914: Remembering Kingston at War
...visitors reach a section focusing on Under age and Over age soldiers, telling the tale of Sidney Lewis, the youngest combatant to sign up during the First World War (at...
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What’s the context? 22 January 1924: Britain’s first Labour government takes office
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...already proving ineffectual, not least because the US refused to sign up. Disarmament remained a worthy aspiration undermined by a nationalism inflamed by contentious peace settlements. In Britain, politicians knew...
What’s the Context? US President announces the ‘Truman Doctrine’, 12 March 1947
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the freedom of Eastern Europe. Talks continued until 24 April but little agreement was reached. En route to Moscow, Bevin travelled to Dunkirk to sign an Anglo-French Treaty of Alliance;...
The Zimmermann telegram and Room 40
...thought that their signals might also be collected. If the Germans then became aware of this and changed their codes, the intelligence advantage would be lost. Only when the Admiralty...
Harold Macmillan and the Geography of Power at No. 10
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...the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Room itself. In doing so, the Cabinet Office – and the Cabinet Secretary - gained a significant promotion in Whitehall’s ‘geography of power’. In...
9 December 1916: David Lloyd George introduces minuted Cabinet meetings and instigates the Cabinet Office
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...from the ultimate decision-making body within the executive who would normally, as members of the regular Cabinet, be part of its processes. This change was coupled with another significant development....
Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
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The private life of Harold Macmillan
...as opposed to a private sanctuary. Significantly, it was a scandal involving the private life of one of his ministers – John Profumo, who was sleeping with a model named...
What’s The Context? 8 January 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana in triumph
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...and Jordan, a show of force intended to deter Nasser from becoming closer to Moscow. Meanwhile, the UK Government under Harold Macmillan was preoccupied with unsuccessful efforts to promote a...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-1024x753.jpg)
...Street. The Garden Suburb represented a significant augmentation in the support available to the Prime Minister. Before this point, the only full-time official staff available at No.10 was a group...