...years between May 1940 and October 1963 men who had fought in the First World War held the office of Prime Minister. By contrast, Second World War veterans held the...
...joined up with the Digital Team to use Twitter to take a fresh approach to telling a familiar story. The idea was to tweet, in real time, 100 years on,...
...was only a proposal it prompted a flurry of correspondence between mildly flustered Foreign Office officials and with the British ambassador in Paris, concerned with the political implications that such...
...need to use this period of gloom and doom to sharpen the knives on public expenditure’4. Advisers such as David Willetts and John Redwood consistently write memos in a very...
...Nearby in Long Acre, a high-explosive bomb penetrated the basement of Odham’s Printing Works, which was being used as a temporary shelter, killing 38 people. Londoners subjected to regular raids,...
...do, “entering, indexing and sorting the various documents taken in to be filed, and other duties of a like nature, but I should confine their use to this class of...
...counsel to the king. Their meetings were mostly frequently referred to as ‘councils’, although in the reign of Henry II we do see some early use of the French term...
...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...
...be used to illustrate Macmillan’s political techniques, such as his use of the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 to drive the resumption of nuclear information sharing with...
...which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan temporarily decamped to Admiralty House. The central issue that this project seeks to investigate is how the period’s ten different Prime Ministers used the building’s...