From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
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A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...A hundred years ago today, on 5 January 1917, in the midst of the Great War, an important note was circulated around Whitehall departments. J. T. Davis, private secretary to...
What's the Context? Signature of the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Past prime ministers, Second World War, What's the context? series
...of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation to Britain’s imperial legacy, Russian suspicions of Western intentions and transatlantic differences over trade. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on...
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
Maurice Hankey (1877-1963) deserves to be far better known than he is today as the principal architect of the Cabinet Office in modern British government. It would be wrong to...
King Charles I’s most loyal Privy Council
...and policy was channelled. Yet many individuals today do not realise what the Privy Council is and the central role it has in fact played in our nation’s history. This...
What’s The Context? 8 January 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana in triumph
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the world were not on Cuba In the broader Cold War context, the international focus in 1958-9 was on Europe and the Middle East, not Latin America. In 1958 Khrushchev...
What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
'Knowing the English and the traditions of British foreign policy, I could not accept that Chamberlain would make any firm commitments in Eastern Europe’. Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador in London[i]...
What’s the Context? Signing the Anglo-American Financial Agreement, 6 December 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...bridge between East and West, to revive trade with Europe, and above all to keep on close terms with the US. The Anglo-American Financial Agreement must be seen in that...
Anglo-Russian Entente 1907
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...expansion or, even worse, a separate Russo-Japanese understanding which would undermine the British position in the Far East. This alliance with Japan was renewed in 1905 in the midst of...
Curzon's comeuppance
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Professor Jonathan Conlin, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...all the treaties negotiated in the wake of World War 1, the Treaty of Lausanne has usually been seen as the most successful. Or perhaps more accurately, as the least...