The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...ending, at least in the victorious countries. The armistice was agreed at 5.10am on 11 November to come into effect at 11am. The news was conveyed around Europe within the...
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The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005
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Dr Michelle Clement, Posted on:
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Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...and his government. Why was the Delivery Unit created? When a newly elected Prime Minister arrives at No.10 Downing Street, the workplace and often home of the British Prime Minister,...
The World’s War in Europe
...British Empire fell into two distinct parts: the self-governing Dominions - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, and those colonies that were wholly or partly governed from London, including...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...on extending the same mutual defence measures envisaged for Europe to the Far East.[iv] But ministers knew that in reality nothing other than political warfare—anti-Communist propaganda—was practicable. Though nominally supporting...
What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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...to divert precious naval resources to the Far East. The British government knew that the Chinese were ‘fighting the battle of Western Nations in the Far East’ but felt they...
Curzon's comeuppance
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Professor Jonathan Conlin, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...government and ending the spectacular career of the 'Welsh Wizard', David Lloyd George. The Swiss city of Lausanne was selected as venue for a new round of Near East peace...
What’s the Context? President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, 8 August 1974
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...HarperCollins, 1995) Jonathan Schell, ‘Reflexions on the Nixon Years’, 6 articles in the New Yorker, 1975; cited here, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/06/30/the-time-of-illusion-v-the-script-and-the-players Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
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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...project codenamed TUBE ALLOYS. From 1943 he worked in the US on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb, and from 1947 at the British nuclear establishment at Harwell. Fuchs...
Prime Ministers in the First World War
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Simon Ball, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...on who fell the burden of frontline fighting. All three volunteered. All three served as infantry officers, Attlee with the East Lancashire Regiment, Eden with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps,...
50 years of collecting ethnicity data
...of the size of the White and non-White populations. People were classified according to whether they were born in: the Old Commonwealth (Australia, Canada and New Zealand) the New Commonwealth...