...Polish Signals Bureau sent a coded message to his French counterpart on 30 June that ‘there is a new development’. This was not a cryptologic breakthrough, but a willingness to...
...and the United States meant that the newly formed countries could benefit from trade and commerce. What also resulted from the independence was the outlawing of the trade in slavery...
...War tin hat or ‘Brodie’ helmet, to name but a few items. Exhibition Launch The exhibition opened to great acclaim, with the private view on Thursday 15th May. The Mayor...
...source: newworldencyclopedia.org Before the October Revolution in 1917 that put the Bolsheviks in power in Russia, their long-exiled leader, Lenin, had insisted publicly that in a proletarian dictatorship there would...
...managing Cabinets full of big and difficult personalities. It is also no coincidence that both presided over the end of lengthy wars and the sensitive negotiations that followed. Consumed by...
...forced ships already embarked to turn back; that night the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, was told that if the invasion did not start next day, the weather...
...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
...authorities stating that she should not be allowed to return to Britain. A few months later they issued a further circular, stating that if she returned she should be arrested....
...‘I will make absolutely certain that senior civil servants know about this, and I will see what I can do’. In July 1991, Major announced that owing to ‘changing social...
...that debate of June 1850. While it was a long speech, it is what he said in the last couple of minutes that has usually been remembered: I therefore fearlessly...