First World War Battlefields Tour
...Belgium, the first cemetery we visited was Tyne Cot, which is situated 9 km north-east of Ypres town centre. Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British and Commonwealth War Cemetery...
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The Hertslets, a Family of Librarians
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, The National Archives
...explain Lewis' appointment as sub Librarian in the Foreign Office in 1801, aged just 13. By 1810 he had been promoted to Librarian and Keeper of the Papers. In 1822...
What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...beginning of May the Red Army had conquered ‘the lair of the fascist beast’. The Soviet capture of Berlin came at a heavy price: 78, 291 Red Army soldiers killed...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...in China and the future of the Middle East. A contentious issue was the future of defeated Germany: its administration, industrial disarmament, allocation of reparations, and how its people should...
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...forced upon him, and in summer 1783 let it be known that he would welcome opposition to the ministry’s bill to reform the East India Company; its parliamentary defeat gave...
What’s the Context? Winston Churchill’s ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech, Fulton, 5 March 1946
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War, What's the context? series
...Soviet threat, Churchill’s speech was not out of tune with British and American policy, as demonstrated by reports from their representatives in Moscow, Kennan and Roberts.[3] East-West relations were increasingly...
What’s the Context? The decision to build a British atomic bomb, 8 January 1947
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Atomic Weapons, Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Past prime ministers, What's the context? series
...Subversive Activities.[6] Overseas, although East-West tension had not yet solidified into open enmity, the international scene looked menacing enough. Bevin was engaged in a series of adversarial negotiations on peace...
The founding of the NHS: 75 years on
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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National Health Service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...the East End of London shaped his view of the role of the state. By the time he was in government, ideas that had seemed very much his own were...
Forward or backward looking? The Treaty of Versailles
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...the establishment of the League of Nations, an organisation intended to promote and keep the peace. This was ironic as Germany was initially excluded from membership, with the intention that...
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
...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...