Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig 1742 to 1743)
...his desire to replace Walpole with Compton when he succeeded to the throne. Thus, on receiving news of his father’s death from Walpole in June 1727, the new King made...
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Air-raid casualties in the First World War
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Edgar Jones, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series
...aerial bombardment was a significant element in a new era of total warfare. Bombing campaign Air-raids over the UK during the First World War were sporadic and relatively small scale...
William Pitt 'The Elder' (Whig, 1766-1768)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...a policy of continental involvement, no doubt helped by his increasing attachment to Newcastle. It was through Newcastle’s influence that he was elected as MP for Seaford in 1747 and...
What’s the context? 12 October 2015: The execution of Edith Cavell
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...guns, ammunition or men to fight the war they were faced with, and their communications were poor. The Central Powers discovered that success would require new defensive tactics, while on...
Lord Palmerston
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...away, holding onto it through Lord Liverpool’s premiership, but did not reach the cabinet until 1827. With like-minded ‘liberal Tory’ colleagues, he resigned the following year from Wellington’s new government,...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...principles of the new discipline of political economy, and by his trilogy of novels urging paternalistic politics. Most famously, he attacked the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, contributing to his...
9 December 1916: David Lloyd George introduces minuted Cabinet meetings and instigates the Cabinet Office
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Dr Andrew Blick, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Cabinet Secretaries, Civil service, Defence and conflict, First World War
Sir Maurice Hankey, 1921 (Library of Congress) A century ago today, David Lloyd George, the new Prime Minister, held the first meeting of his War Cabinet. In the process he...
Sir Edward Grey and the First World War: the unmaking of a Foreign Secretary
...expanded into new areas of work, the biggest relating to the economic blockade of Germany. This developed in February 1916 into the Ministry of Blockade, nominally under the control of...
The language of Government and the power of plain English
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Dr Sean Cunningham, Posted on:
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Communications, The Monarchy, The National Archives
When governments communicate, the medium can be as valuable as the message. In the modern age of instant news and response through social media, it is often easy to lose...
Intelligence, Attlee and the Brook Report
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Dr Dan Lomas, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Past prime ministers
...wartime, the intelligence community had a hard time against the new Soviet threat. In March 1946, the JIC even admitted its reports were speculative given the ‘limited evidence’ on Soviet...