...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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:...
...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,...
...between 1948 and 1950, the US channelled $12 billion into the European Recovery Programme. Britain received the lion’s share of $2.7 billion. The US offer and Soviet response set the...
...was some discussion between the General Register Office and the Home Office on the procedure to be adopted, and it was decided that the military or naval authorities, or the...
...with the Departments have been very free and informal, the whole object of the relationships being to help the departments in getting matters to the attention of the Prime Minister...
...free hand in Eastern Europe and Russia and for territorial changes brought about by force; both accepted that conflict with Hitler’s Nazi Germany was probably inevitable, but that delaying that...