“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...do, “entering, indexing and sorting the various documents taken in to be filed, and other duties of a like nature, but I should confine their use to this class of...
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Magna Carta and counselling the King
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Dr Jessica Nelson, Posted on:
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Parliament, The Monarchy, The National Archives
...counsel to the king. Their meetings were mostly frequently referred to as ‘councils’, although in the reign of Henry II we do see some early use of the French term...
Invasion Publicity during the Second World War
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Dr Henry Irving, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Home affairs, Second World War
...Ministry of Information, by contrast, wanted to ‘rouse the public’ by including an instruction for anyone behind enemy lines to: ‘Do everything in your power to render [the German troops’]...
‘We shall fight on the beaches’: 3 things you never knew about Churchill’s most famous speech
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Second World War
...speech... Rather, he gave it in the House of Commons, beginning at 3.40 pm and sitting down at 4.14. By contrast with some later occasions – notably his ‘finest hour’...
Gift Horses and Horoscopes
...finally purchased by the British Government for £47,625 (equivalent to £3m-£4m in current cash terms, depending upon the calculator used). The first Director of the National Stud appointed by the...
Lord Derby
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...experience and was nicknamed the ‘Who? Who?’ ministry (supposedly because the Duke of Wellington appeared not to recognise the names of the new ministers when they were announced). Derby was...
The Changing Face – and Faces – of Number 10 Downing Street: the geography of power since 1945
...which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan temporarily decamped to Admiralty House. The central issue that this project seeks to investigate is how the period’s ten different Prime Ministers used the building’s...
Are you sitting comfortably?
...Redwood used so effectively? The Policy Unit The Policy Unit was established by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in March 1974. Wilson ’felt that he needed more political and policy advice...
Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
...Secretary, Arthur Balfour, offered to send him papers of interest but Grey desired to know no more than the newspapers told him: knowledge was just a cause of useless worry....
The Prime Ministers’ people: indispensable aides to three premiers
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...Licences. Walpole was able to dominate government policymaking. He did so partly because of his political skills and because he held a position that Prime Ministers generally ceased to occupy...