What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
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From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
Lord Carrington: an appreciation
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What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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History at the heart of diplomacy
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...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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...his programme of free socialist development, toleration of dissent and the secret ballot would not affect external policy, the Prague Spring appeared an unacceptable threat to Communist solidarity. But the...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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...the Chinese nationalists, the US took the view that they were not there to bail out failing states and reward poor leadership. Indian Foreign Minister Menon commented that if Western...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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...Day. His selected guests would attend free, paid for out of civil funds, with anyone else who attended having to pay. The price was beyond most ex-servicemen and women were...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...and supervised the first free elections in February 1980. Few at the time anticipated the sweeping nature of Mugabe’s election victory or the ruthlessness with which he would exercise his...
What’s the context? The release of Nelson Mandela, 11 February 1990
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...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...