What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...that it would be better to deal with the Western Allies as occupiers than Soviet Russia. The high casualty rate was also a result of Soviet haste. Stalin had delayed...
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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...
Anglo-Russian Entente 1907
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...agreements did not mention Europe, but focussed on Persia, Tibet and Afghanistan. There were good reasons why Britain and Russia focused on this area, including resolving the historic tension over...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...speculation in South America, and his first novel was condemned for its immaturity and crude character assassinations of society figures. After a nervous breakdown, he produced a stream of novels...
History’s Unparalleled Alliance: the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Windsor, 9th May 1386
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Ben Trowbridge, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...St James (The National Archives: E 30/310) Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Egyptian leader would not work with the West or promote an Arab-Israeli settlement, and Britain should realign its policy accordingly. Britain’s oil supplies and trade routes to the southern hemisphere...
Commemorating 1066 in 1966, a diplomatic dilemma?
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Ben Trowbridge, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...was only a proposal it prompted a flurry of correspondence between mildly flustered Foreign Office officials and with the British ambassador in Paris, concerned with the political implications that such...
Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers
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D R Thorpe, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...in northern Malaya and southern Thailand on 8 December 1941. Though numerically inferior, the Japanese took full advantage of their superior training and equipment, and the early sinking of HMS...
Asquith, Lloyd George, and the struggle for the premiership in December 1916
...His ejection from office was effectively a political coup d’état, the result of an intrigue between the War Secretary David Lloyd George – a fellow Liberal, who had served before...