...humiliating blow to British prestige but also exposed weaknesses both in Middle Eastern policy and in crisis management. Butler identified a range of factors responsible for the debacle including a...
...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...
...Soviet threat, Churchill’s speech was not out of tune with British and American policy, as demonstrated by reports from their representatives in Moscow, Kennan and Roberts.[3] East-West relations were increasingly...
...already proving ineffectual, not least because the US refused to sign up. Disarmament remained a worthy aspiration undermined by a nationalism inflamed by contentious peace settlements. In Britain, politicians knew...
...future of shiny furnishings and newly painted walls, we look back at the (soon to be) old British Embassy Bangkok and its remnants of the past. The British Embassy Bangkok,...
...British forces from East of Suez at a time when the US Administration was embroiled in Vietnam. The government was also beset by a range of complex foreign policy issues,...
...the NATO alliance and by the end of 1965 France had pulled out of SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation) and refused to participate in future NATO military manoeuvres. He...
...Middle East. Copyright Professor Kevin Theakston. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for...
Soon after taking office a new Prime Minister receives special briefings from the Cabinet Secretary. One is on the ‘letters of last resort’, which give instructions to the commander of...
...Britain’s Olympic efforts, either personally or with state funding, is only a recent phenomenon. Tony Blair reacts to the news that London was to host the 2012 Olympics Most twentieth-century...