Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...that they should write speeches that had at least 3 quotations in them, so that people who were listening would think that he occasionally read a book. Whilst no enterprise...
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What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...The German ceasefire, as it was not a surrender, meant that at least in theory there was a risk that the war could be resumed. In practise, few countries, and...
The woman in green who won the Khaki election
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...seat in the parliament at Westminster. But she was not the first woman to be elected. That place in history belongs to Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) in what has been...
History at the heart of diplomacy
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Historian, Patrick Salmon, paid tribute to ‘a tradition of scholarship and dedication to public service that stretches back over the decades to our foundation in March 1918: a tradition that...
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...was important to ‘increase strains’ on the Soviet bloc by promoting bilateral ties, but ‘not at the expense of the Soviet Union’ (whatever that meant). The West accepted, however, that...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
Map of the world with NATO member countries highlighted 5 years ago, we marked the 65th birthday of NATO with a What’s the Context blog: What’s the context? 4 April...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...faced by servicemen readapting to society. Spending money on the dead was another point of contention. Many veterans argued that looking after the living would be a better legacy. One...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
Forty years ago, on 21 December 1979, an agreement was signed at Lancaster House. It brought an end to the illegal white-dominated regime that had ruled Rhodesia since the Unilateral...
What’s the context? The release of Nelson Mandela, 11 February 1990
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Professor Patrick Salmon, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...invisible prisoner had become a symbol of South African oppression. During the 1980s ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ became a worldwide campaign. His release was an act of political courage by the...
Preparing for Helsinki: the CSCE Multilateral Preparatory Talks
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States (including an all-important Principle VII on human rights and fundamental freedoms). Basket II covered economic, scientific, technological and environmental co-operation. Basket III was devoted...