...nationalisation of the Canal was based on deep-rooted preconceptions that by 1956 were increasingly open to challenge. The Middle East was seen as a strategic land bridge between Europe, Asia...
...and the product of a partnership between No.10, the Policy Institute at King’s College London, King’s Widening Participation Department, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and award-winning charity The Brilliant Club. Having many...
...things that did not concern him. The war entered his dreams. Grey woke on Christmas Eve 1914 thinking that the Germans had landed and come for him until he realised...
...century after his death. The key to Scott’s legacy lies not in what happened in an Antarctic blizzard in 1912, but in what happened to Britain in the 150 years...
...the Far East. Though a defence of his leadership during what he himself described as the ‘worst disaster’ in British military history, what Churchill told MPs that day illustrated an...
...the men without a formal break in what was described as a ‘free tea’ solution – was rejected.[xv] By November 1961, it was reported that the Downing Street programme was...
...that American expectations of a united (West) European response to Marshall’s proposal were fulfilled. However, Commonwealth considerations meant that the Treasury and Board of Trade ensured that Britain resisted US...
...was some discussion between the General Register Office and the Home Office on the procedure to be adopted, and it was decided that the military or naval authorities, or the...
...1917, shortly after his arrival at No.10. It would prove to be a precursor to an administrative model that continues to function today. David Lloyd George, 1906, The National Archives,...
...America. The natural harbour was the main deep harbour on the Pacific Coast. Valparaiso flourished as commerce and trade flowed through the port. Trade between Europe and the Pacific port...