...left Britain at the height of its economic and military dominance; at the same time, the gruesome Boer War and Joseph Chamberlain’s debates over free trade symbolised the moral and...
...were supplied, the GRO could provide verification statements, free of charge. Certificate applications were at their peak of 108,958 in 1918, an increase of 30% on the rate for 1914....
...duty free. The indigenous population regarded the railway as intrusive, and vandalized the line. With nothing outside Uyuni but rusting engines and wagons, and sand covered tracks disappearing into the...
...free hand in Eastern Europe and Russia and for territorial changes brought about by force; both accepted that conflict with Hitler’s Nazi Germany was probably inevitable, but that delaying that...
...to obstruct any proposal which it was felt impinged on their own freedom of action. Equally, the Prime Minister was frustrated by the inadequacy of the air defence but more...
...Belgium, the first cemetery we visited was Tyne Cot, which is situated 9 km north-east of Ypres town centre. Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British and Commonwealth War Cemetery...
...explain Lewis' appointment as sub Librarian in the Foreign Office in 1801, aged just 13. By 1810 he had been promoted to Librarian and Keeper of the Papers. In 1822...
...beginning of May the Red Army had conquered ‘the lair of the fascist beast’. The Soviet capture of Berlin came at a heavy price: 78, 291 Red Army soldiers killed...
...in China and the future of the Middle East. A contentious issue was the future of defeated Germany: its administration, industrial disarmament, allocation of reparations, and how its people should...
...forced upon him, and in summer 1783 let it be known that he would welcome opposition to the ministry’s bill to reform the East India Company; its parliamentary defeat gave...