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...faced by servicemen readapting to society. Spending money on the dead was another point of contention. Many veterans argued that looking after the living would be a better legacy. One...
Forty years ago, on 21 December 1979, an agreement was signed at Lancaster House. It brought an end to the illegal white-dominated regime that had ruled Rhodesia since the Unilateral...
The American Congress and the American people have never accepted any literal principle of equal sacrifice, financial or otherwise, between all the allied participants. Indeed, have we ourselves? Lord Keynes,...
...better future of the world.’ [Opening preamble to the Charter] 80 years ago, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met on board anchored ships in Placentia...
![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)
...policy for the Garden Suburb generally is difficult to detect. Overall the Garden Suburb seems to have proved useful to Lloyd George in helping him ensure that sensitive intersections between...
...Downing Street. The H&P editors are Dr Andrew Thompson and Dr Ben Griffin, of Cambridge University, and Dr Andrew Blick, of King’s College London. H&P is a unique collaboration between...
...also returned frequently to Hanover, making twelve trips between 1727 and 1760. Overall, the first two Georges were absent for roughly one-in-three summers between 1714 and 1760. Discontent at royal...
...states would negotiate with the four occupying powers, proved successful: not least because Gorbachev made the key concession that a united Germany would be free to choose which alliance it...
The Yalta Myth Between 4 and 11 February 1945, while the Second World War still raged both in Europe and in the Far East, the ‘Big Three’—Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill—met...