The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...avoiding crowds, to more questionable ones, such as eating lots of porridge and cleaning teeth regularly. Sir Arthur Newsholme Reference: NPG x65720 Newsholme’s actions seem negligent with the benefit of...
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The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...ending, at least in the victorious countries. The armistice was agreed at 5.10am on 11 November to come into effect at 11am. The news was conveyed around Europe within the...
What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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...be one of the main powers at the conference, this inevitably meant formal proceedings had to be delayed until a new government had been formed. Lloyd George was re-elected, which...
Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...(1979 to 1982) and one of the most successful. He was lucky that in the early days she was primarily preoccupied with domestic reform and relatively new to international affairs....
What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
...that if Britain had to fight Germany, it was better to do it in alliance with Poland and France. The French were willing to have meaningful staff talks and there...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...in the parade, and many others paid their respects there, including the widows of the fallen. The public response was so profound that the newspapers quickly started asking whether a...
Diplomatic countdown to war
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...between London, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw. A well-connected Swedish engineer and amateur diplomat called Birger Dahlerus was also trying to mediate between Britain and Germany. His efforts might have...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe. The Lancaster House Agreement represented an early diplomatic success for the new Conservative government of...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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...into his Presidency), Churchill and Stalin could congratulate themselves on a major achievement. Yet they knew the situation on 8 May 1945 remained precarious and the future uncertain. Fighting continued...
What’s the context? 25 June 1950: outbreak of the Korean War
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...support, was corrupt and creaking, and distracted by rigged elections leading to a new Assembly meeting on 19 June. South Korea was vulnerable: so, combined with the threat from the...