The Zimmermann telegram and Room 40
...thought that their signals might also be collected. If the Germans then became aware of this and changed their codes, the intelligence advantage would be lost. Only when the Admiralty...
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Reopening the British Embassy following the liberation of Paris
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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...Embassy Counsellor. Holman had arrived earlier in the month with the combination codes to the safes and 50,000 francs in cash. He took possession of the building from the Swiss...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...met at Torgau in Germany, the San Francisco Conference opened to establish the United Nations Organisation. Anthony Eden wondered whether it was worth attending when ‘Anglo-American relations with Russia are...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...elsewhere. Many decisions about the post-war world had been taken earlier, including at Yalta in February 1945.[2] At the San Francisco Conference, which ended on 26 June 1945, the United...
Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle
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David Brown, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Parliament
...deeper story of British support for liberal constitutional progress and the promotion of self-government by free peoples against perceived absolutist despotism throughout the world, whether that be through backing constitutionalists...
What’s the Context? Sentencing of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, 1 March 1950
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...United States, promoting free trade and convertible currencies, certainly preferred a European bloc, including Britain, to a collection of awkward independent countries. During negotiations for the implementation of the Marshall...
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...
Number 10 under Lloyd George 1916-1922
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Kenneth O Morgan, Posted on:
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Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...version of Harold Wilson’s ‘beer and sandwiches at Number 10’. Indeed in later years, many union leaders looked back with some nostalgia to the easy access to the centre of...