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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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...
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...
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,...
Sounds familiar? Prime Minister’s Office records and Cabinet Papers from 1985-86
...need to use this period of gloom and doom to sharpen the knives on public expenditure’4. Advisers such as David Willetts and John Redwood consistently write memos in a very...
Air-raid casualties in the First World War
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Edgar Jones, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series
...Nearby in Long Acre, a high-explosive bomb penetrated the basement of Odham’s Printing Works, which was being used as a temporary shelter, killing 38 people. Londoners subjected to regular raids,...
Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle
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David Brown, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Parliament
...of mankind ... in due course of time’. Gunboat diplomacy The only remarkable thing about the Don Pacifico affair then was its use of gunboats to promote these values. But...