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...
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What's the Context? Signature of the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Past prime ministers, Second World War, What's the context? series
...of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation to Britain’s imperial legacy, Russian suspicions of Western intentions and transatlantic differences over trade. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...A hundred years ago today, on 5 January 1917, in the midst of the Great War, an important note was circulated around Whitehall departments. J. T. Davis, private secretary to...
Rebuilding No. 10 Downing Street
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence, The National Archives, Uncategorized
...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...
Margaret Thatcher and the Joint Intelligence Committee
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Ian B Beesley and Dr Michael S Goodman, Posted on:
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Civil service, Defence and conflict, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...in the way in which intelligence was collated and assessed by the JIC, stressing that assessment should be free from policy (or political) considerations. She also expressed a wish to...
The Aberdeen Coalition
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Professor Angus Hawkins, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...the Conservative Party split over the repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws in 1846). Although the Cabinet was united in their advocacy of Free Trade, this rich political compound contained...
What’s The Context? 8 January 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana in triumph
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...and Jordan, a show of force intended to deter Nasser from becoming closer to Moscow. Meanwhile, the UK Government under Harold Macmillan was preoccupied with unsuccessful efforts to promote a...
The death of Edward the Confessor and the conflicting claims to the English Crown
...might expect to see if the Confessor was attempting to promote him as a potential successor. The rival claims of Harold and William – which would of course be ultimately...
Gift Horses and Horoscopes
...Board of Agriculture was Captain Henry Greer, a Steward of the Jockey Club and a member of the Irish Turf Club, who had offered to perform the role free of...
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
It has been 30 years since Communist rule in Eastern Europe finally ended with mass demonstrations, an end to one-Party rule, free elections and the opening of borders. Illegal organisations,...