Wartime in Paris: an Ambassador tweets
...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...
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What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989
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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
...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...
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Whig 1762-1763)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...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...
What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...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...
Anglo-Russian Entente 1907
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...two smaller zones, one which neither country dominated, and a British zone to the south. Afghanistan was less of a trade partner to Russia, but there were concerns about the...
Sir Robert Walpole (Whig, 1721-1742)
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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
...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...
What’s the context? 22 January 1924: Britain’s first Labour government takes office
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...keep Labour out. But on 21 January 1924 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announced his resignation in the House, and ‘Thank God for that!’ rose from the Labour benches. The following...
Keep Calm and Carry On – The Compromise Behind the Slogan
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Dr Henry Irving, Posted on:
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Art and design, Defence and conflict, Home affairs
...issue of official news and censorship). It was only after the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) was asked to produce a secret report on foreign propaganda policy in...
Prime Ministers in the First World War
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Simon Ball, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...had put forward in 1966. Macmillan had claimed ‘an obligation to make some decent use of life that had been spared to us.’ He had ‘learnt for the first time...
If Twitter had existed in 1914: tweeting a crisis
...joined up with the Digital Team to use Twitter to take a fresh approach to telling a familiar story. The idea was to tweet, in real time, 100 years on,...