The private life of Harold Macmillan
...public life – to observe different standards from those prevalent today in many circles. Macmillan perceived himself as speaking from inside the confines of the British political community, and was...
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The first woman of British parliament
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Parliament
...MPs. Such behaviour lost her friends and allies. Nancy was a woman of strong beliefs; the depth of these feelings means that her reputation today is somewhat tarnished. She was...
Reopening the British Embassy following the liberation of Paris
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...increasingly large military base communities scattered across Germany if the Russians invaded. Today, the British government continues to devise evacuation plans for non-combatants, particularly in the world's most politically volatile...
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points: A recipe for world peace?
One hundred years ago today US President, Woodrow Wilson, gave his famous speech to Congress articulating the Fourteen Points and principles that he believed should be the foundation of post-war...
Prime Ministers and their Chancellors
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...four times Chancellor before he was four time Prime Minister – who developed the Exchequer into recognisably modern form. He did not envisage anything like today’s welfare state, being obsessed...
Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers
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D R Thorpe, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...be brought to her. Subsequent events eroded the Queen’s prerogative. From July 1965 onwards, the Conservative Party elected its leader, as the Labour Party had done since 1922. Today it...
Government Art Collection at Number 10
...origin of the Government Art Collection (GAC). Today the GAC is responsible for acquiring and displaying works of art in over 400 British Government buildings in the UK and nearly...
George III and his Prime Ministers
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Professor Jeremy Black, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...and his greater willingness later in his reign to adapt to the realities of parliamentary monarchy – the constitutional system we still have today. In the 1760s, both King and...
Prime Ministers in the House of Lords
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...title is Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium. It may today appear very strange that a member of the House of Lords could head the British government. The last peer...