The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...avoiding crowds, to more questionable ones, such as eating lots of porridge and cleaning teeth regularly. Sir Arthur Newsholme Reference: NPG x65720 Newsholme’s actions seem negligent with the benefit of...
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What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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...was intensifying and Britain, France and the US were providing resources to support the White Russians against the Bolsheviks in the fight to retain independence in countries in Eastern Europe....
Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...(1979 to 1982) and one of the most successful. He was lucky that in the early days she was primarily preoccupied with domestic reform and relatively new to international affairs....
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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...in the parade, and many others paid their respects there, including the widows of the fallen. The public response was so profound that the newspapers quickly started asking whether a...
Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...to the Dominions, particularly to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, before the risk from torpedo attack at sea was deemed too great. This comparatively short-lived and voluntary scheme was one...
Diplomatic countdown to war
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...been less welcome if the British Government knew how strong his connections were to Hermann Göring, President of the German Parliament. Hermann Göring in Nazi Party uniform wearing the order...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe. The Lancaster House Agreement represented an early diplomatic success for the new Conservative government of...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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...into his Presidency), Churchill and Stalin could congratulate themselves on a major achievement. Yet they knew the situation on 8 May 1945 remained precarious and the future uncertain. Fighting continued...
What's the Context? Signature of the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941
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...Bay, off Newfoundland. On 14 August 1941 they signed the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of principles drawn up when Britain was engaged in deadly conflict with the Axis powers,...