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...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...
...Americans still thought it better to keep him in power as a bulwark against the USSR. The poor relationship between Eden and US Secretary of State Dulles, who thought Britain...
...1989), p.266 [viii] C. Jones, No.10 Downing Street: The Story of a House (London: BBC, 1985), p.154 [ix] R. J. Minney, No.10 Downing Street: A House in History (Boston: Little,...
...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...
...their way to surrender Singapore to General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Japanese Imperial Army. Commons Wikimedia On 27 January, as the disaster unfolded, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons:...
...with the goal of being the first person in history to reach the South Pole. The story, however, did not play out as planned: using better navigation and much better...
...and the product of a partnership between No.10, the Policy Institute at King’s College London, King’s Widening Participation Department, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and award-winning charity The Brilliant Club. Having many...
...Conservatives used them to develop their image as a party sympathetic to the working man. Disraeli himself was most interested in foreign policy. He used the international crisis in the...
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...
...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...