...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...seems impossible to kill it. 2) The most important bit rarely gets quoted... Usually, when the recording is played today, it gets cut off after the words ‘never surrender’, as...
...latter recommendation was to lead to the formation of the Foreign Office Planning Staff (today the FCDO Strategy Unit). This fulfilled Butler’s wish that his study might make a ‘small...
...background to this significant development, from The National Archives website . And so, today, 1st August, The National Archives is releasing Prime Minister’s Office records, Cabinet Papers and Home Office...
How Britain built the most powerful radio transmitter in the world, and gave Goebbels ‘something to worry about'. Crowborough, the site of Aspidistra, as it is today Source: Nick Catford,...
...I believe Korea is the place. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, en route to Colombo Conference in January 1950[i] Seventy years ago today, the North Korean People’s Army of the Democratic...
...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...
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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...