From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
The National Health Service (NHS) is seventy years old today. Founded on 5 July 1948 by Clement Attlee’s Labour government, the NHS is now the most celebrated welfare institution in...
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Mapping for War and Peace - Ordnance Survey’s maps and the First World War
...of Ordnance – the Ministry of Defence of Georgian Britain – to survey and map the Channel coast of Southern England in preparation for invasion. Even though cutting-edge digital products...
What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
Portrait Photograph, President John F. Kennedy. White House | US National Archives Fifty years ago today, the 35thPresident of the United States of America was shot dead as his...
Paratrooper Brian, D.M. and the future of military working dogs
...in southeast England. When functioning properly, the cables and the several antennae to which they were linked, allowed the station to receive long-distance radio signals. A Labrador called Rex was...
Redesigning No.10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
Commemorating 1066 in 1966, a diplomatic dilemma?
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Ben Trowbridge, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...the NATO alliance and by the end of 1965 France had pulled out of SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation) and refused to participate in future NATO military manoeuvres. He...
What’s the context? The resignation of Anthony Eden, 20 February 1938
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...ostensibly angling for colonial concessions in Africa, was firming up his plans for action against Austria and Czechoslovakia. At the beginning of February 1938 Hitler engineered a major purge of...
Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
...had no sons but he did have close family involved, namely his brother Charlie who was wounded fighting in British East Africa and had his left arm amputated. He also...
The Macmillan Diaries
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...gave most weight to what was politically important to him. Controversial matters within the Conservative Party, such as the crisis in Central Africa, when white minorities opposed Macmillan's policy of...
The Institution of Prime Minister
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...the real head of the executive, an active political force concerned with the day-to-day issues of government to a monarch with a veto – the right to dismiss the Prime...