...King turned as his new premier when Grafton resigned as Prime Minister (a term North never used of himself) in January 1770. Exceptionally conscientious North was an exceptionally conscientious first...
...not least on the grounds that further military conflict was financially unaffordable, and his government negotiated the Peace of Amiens with France in March 1802. The peace allowed a period...
...memorial in the precincts of either Westminster Abbey or the Palace of Westminster, was dashed by a new rule which barred such memorials until ten years after a person’s death....
...horse transport would continue to be indispensable in modern warfare”. Furthermore, in the beginning at least, the Stud did make money. In 1922 it was stated that, “During the five...
...officials do not come well out of it. The Crabb episode provoked much discussion, including with the JIC, about new procedures for obtaining clearance for intelligence-gathering operations. Bridges himself felt,...
Students, Ambassadors and Tutors at the K+ Spotlight Summer School, outside King's College London's Great Hall. The role of Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street is a new one,...
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...the newly-installed Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, served notice that: ‘The Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several Departments, to establish...
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...the Army or the Navy”. He knew little of the ins and outs of air forces, however, and thus relied heavily on advice from the man who had been the...
...sent to the Eastern Front in a reconnaissance position before the regiment was transferred to the Western Front. But the conditions on the Western Front had less requirement of cavalry...