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...then I'll begin. Could a government document ever have been a potential contender for the ‘Jackanory’1 treatment? Let me explain. Today, 3 January, as part of the transition to a...
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The Silver Greyhound - The Messenger Service
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Civil service, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...the Messenger service would last until the 20th century. Today The Corps of Queen's Messengers still exists today, as not everything can be sent by electronic or registered mail. In...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![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-e1483652073427.jpg)
...A hundred years ago today, on 5 January 1917, in the midst of the Great War, an important note was circulated around Whitehall departments. J. T. Davis, private secretary to...
What's the Context? Signature of the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Past prime ministers, Second World War, What's the context? series
...of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation to Britain’s imperial legacy, Russian suspicions of Western intentions and transatlantic differences over trade. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on...
Maurice Hankey: Architect of Modern Government
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W J R Gardner, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, No 10 guest historian series
Maurice Hankey (1877-1963) deserves to be far better known than he is today as the principal architect of the Cabinet Office in modern British government. It would be wrong to...
King Charles I’s most loyal Privy Council
...and policy was channelled. Yet many individuals today do not realise what the Privy Council is and the central role it has in fact played in our nation’s history. This...
We wanted to wake him up: Lloyd George and suffragette militancy
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Elizabeth Crawford, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Social history
...for Lloyd George. However, he had not yet signed the lease and, when the explosion occurred, had already set out on a motoring holiday in the south of France with...
Sir Robert Walpole (Whig, 1721-1742)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
Sir Robert Walpole “My Lord Bath, you and I are now as insignificant men as any in England.” Today often viewed as the first British Prime Minister, Walpole was described...
The Zimmermann telegram and Room 40
...of the room, about which there has been both speculation and mystery. There have been different theories about the source of the codebook used to decipher diplomatic traffic. Even today,...
Magna Carta and counselling the King
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Dr Jessica Nelson, Posted on:
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Parliament, The Monarchy, The National Archives
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the granting of Magna Carta by King John. Today, the Great Charter is viewed as the foundation of many of our rights and...