...Rhodesian Peace Pact at Lancaster House in London, granting Zimbabwe (former Southern Rhodesia) its independence, December 21, 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) FCO Historians are marking the 40th anniversary by...
...project codenamed TUBE ALLOYS. From 1943 he worked in the US on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb, and from 1947 at the British nuclear establishment at Harwell. Fuchs...
...Cabinet despatched the Minister of Food to Washington to plead for extra wheat supplies, to avert famine in South Africa and India, and starvation in the British Zone of Germany....
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
...churches. The bombing of David Lloyd George’s house was part of this campaign. Bombs concealed in cupboards More recent experience of domestic terrorism suggests the bombing of Lloyd George’s house...
...the South Sea Bubble and Walpole played an important role in restoring government credit. Careful management His skill in retaining office when George I died in 1727 was noteworthy in...
...grand mansion bought by the Duke of Wellington in 1814 from Napoleon's sister, Pauline Borghese, to serve as the British embassy house. Francis Bertie in 1915 @WikiCommons Bertie had been...
...and asked them what they were going to buy. They said first of all, Südfrüchte . . . tropical fruit, a very understandable thing because they didn’t have nearly as...
...representative peers in the House of Lords in 1737. Bute was only an occasional attendee, however, and failed to secure re-election in 1741. Royal connections Having spent time improving his...
...the assault on Berlin because he wanted Soviet forces to be well-prepared to face the expected fierce Nazi resistance. On 1 April 1945 the Generalissimo summoned his top commanders to...