...whole new way of behaving. Thus Winston Churchill complained that he found ‘a woman’s intrusion into the House of Commons as embarrassing as if she burst into my bathroom when...
...Now for the very first time five former cabinet secretaries – Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O’Donnell will be providing new and compelling material about...
...also returned frequently to Hanover, making twelve trips between 1727 and 1760. Overall, the first two Georges were absent for roughly one-in-three summers between 1714 and 1760. Discontent at royal...
...resign as First Lord of the Admiralty, recognised that Chamberlain had done better than expected. Munich was not an isolated crisis, but the latest episode in a five-year standoff in...
...Dining Room, shortly after I started. Small Dining Room Number 10 We were doing a recruitment exercise for a new member of staff and I had booked the Small Dining...
...alive at the time remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. Personally, I was in a cinema in London watching the newly-released West...
...Nobody did more to hold together the tense alliance between the Conservatives and Labour. Attlee also ran large policy areas of the home front while Churchill focused on the military...
...heralding a new era of security. In his speech at the signing ceremony President Truman said he believed that if NATO had been in existence in 1914 or 1939 it...
...Even pre-Civil War, Henrietta Maria, being a French Catholic, was not a popular figure in England. However, her unpopularity reached new heights in 1642, as she was now seen as...
Dr Richard Smith reveals an exciting new Twitter project by the FCO Historians In 1914 Sir Francis Bertie held the plum posting in the British Diplomatic Service—the ambassadorship to Paris....