...all the treaties negotiated in the wake of World War 1, the Treaty of Lausanne has usually been seen as the most successful. Or perhaps more accurately, as the least...
...the freedom of Eastern Europe. Talks continued until 24 April but little agreement was reached. En route to Moscow, Bevin travelled to Dunkirk to sign an Anglo-French Treaty of Alliance;...
...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...personnel participated in the air war against the Germans and Italians in North Africa and the Middle East, in the defence of Malta in 1942, in the Allied drive through...
...earth-shattering in footballing terms, other than perhaps to the current England squad, but it was said at a time when football, for a brief moment at least, became a crucial...
...Communist China by his groundbreaking visit in February 1972; achieved a limited degree of peace in the Middle East, still in turmoil after the Yom Kippur war of October 1973...
...Germany in June 1941, the hard-fought battles that secured victory on the Eastern Front and thereby ensured success in the West had been won at immense human and economic cost....
Today a memorial service is held at Westminster Abbey for the former foreign secretary Lord (Peter) Carrington, who died last July aged 99. Over a life-time of public service, he...
...war was a contentious issue. Constance Markievicz played an active part in the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Uprising, where she was second in command of the force which...
...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,...