...as a central organising machine and keep the minutes: the beginnings of today’s Cabinet Office. And, impinging directly on Number 10, Lloyd George chose his own secretariat, a novel group...
...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...
...I believe Korea is the place. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, en route to Colombo Conference in January 1950[i] Seventy years ago today, the North Korean People’s Army of the Democratic...
How Britain built the most powerful radio transmitter in the world, and gave Goebbels ‘something to worry about'. Crowborough, the site of Aspidistra, as it is today Source: Nick Catford,...
...background to this significant development, from The National Archives website . And so, today, 1st August, The National Archives is releasing Prime Minister’s Office records, Cabinet Papers and Home Office...
...latter recommendation was to lead to the formation of the Foreign Office Planning Staff (today the FCDO Strategy Unit). This fulfilled Butler’s wish that his study might make a ‘small...
...seems impossible to kill it. 2) The most important bit rarely gets quoted... Usually, when the recording is played today, it gets cut off after the words ‘never surrender’, as...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...of the room, about which there has been both speculation and mystery. There have been different theories about the source of the codebook used to decipher diplomatic traffic. Even today,...
...battle of Hastings contrast with the more national character of those in Britain. Returning to Reilly’s letter of 4th February, he informs his colleagues that “French children are taught today...