The birth of the Royal Air Force
...only one German aircraft being shot down whilst the defenders lost two aircraft. The outrage which followed in a nation which had become used to centuries of immunity behind the...
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What’s the context? 12 October 2015: The execution of Edith Cavell
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...helping over 200 Allied servicemen escape to England. At her trial she confessed freely to doing this. Many others, mostly Belgian, had been arrested with her, of whom 26 were...
Rethinking No. 10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...my role this year, I am investigating the ‘Geography of Power’ at the heart of British Government, and the important two-way relationship between No. 10 as a building and those...
Harold Macmillan and the Geography of Power at No. 10
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence, The National Archives, Uncategorized
...those of the Ministry of Works, were to be implemented between 1960-63. During these works, the Prime Minister’s living and working quarters were relocated to Admiralty House, a grand building...
Filling ‘the hole in the centre’: The No.10 Policy Unit – 50 years on
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...under a government of a different political hue? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) made use of the Policy Unit throughout her premiership. A note written on 9 May 1979, by...
The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...My name is Dr Michelle Clement and I am Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street. This role forms part of a partnership between No.10 Downing Street and The Strand...
The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and the 1968 reorganisation of British manufacturing
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Dr Roy Edwards and Dr Anthony Gandy, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, Home affairs
...could compete on a global basis, not by nationalisation but by promoting amalgamation. Harold Wilson’s oft-cited speech on the ‘white heat of technology’ recognised the importance of new technology, and...
What’s the Context? Occupying Powers sign Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, 3 September 1971
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Wall in 1961 gave concrete form to ideological, political and military competition between East and West. Berlin problems were a useful stick with which to beat the other side, and...
The first woman of British parliament
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Parliament
...painted by John Singer Sargent in 1908. Source: http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/766112 They moved in high social circles. Nancy used these connections to steer Waldorf away from his family’s interests in newspapers, which...
What’s the context? VJ Day, 15 August 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Far East as much as to Europe. For that reason, Stalin continued to hedge his bets in the bitter struggle in China between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government - signatory of...