Running a government department - Victorian style
...and motivating large numbers of men, experience which he put to good use in his new post. He inherited an organisation, the General Register Office (GRO), designed by his predecessor,...
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What’s the context? The release of Nelson Mandela, 11 February 1990
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Professor Patrick Salmon, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...widespread use of terror tactics by both the government and its opponents. Meanwhile, the ANC stepped up sabotage and armed attacks from its bases in neighbouring states. South Africa was...
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
...the USS Missouri in the presence of General Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific theatre. The end of the Second World War was a cause for celebration on...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...bomb was tested successfully in New Mexico. Its use, on 6 and 9 August, would lead to Japanese surrender and the final end to the global conflict. At Potsdam, Truman...
Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...office, he did not use it to enrich himself) and served as one of Walpole’s senior lieutenants in the House of Commons. Following Walpole’s fall in 1742, Pelham became leader...
Margaret Thatcher and the Joint Intelligence Committee
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Ian B Beesley and Dr Michael S Goodman, Posted on:
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Civil service, Defence and conflict, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) after the British Government assumed direct rule of the rebellious colony. He was a key participant in the Lancaster House Conference, aiming finally...
Maurice Hankey: Architect of Modern Government
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W J R Gardner, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, No 10 guest historian series
...himself for use in his periodic letters to the sovereign. Even at the departmental level, many papers that would now be considered official would then be treated as private papers...
The Exchequer: a chequered history?
...– but also treasures such as Domesday book, royal wills and the various chests that were used to house them. Indeed, it was an ill-judged attempt to burn superfluous wooden...
History’s Unparalleled Alliance: the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Windsor, 9th May 1386
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Ben Trowbridge, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...St James (The National Archives: E 30/310) Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and...