From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
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Lord Carrington: an appreciation
...yes. The impression he gave was of a man who brought fun to every role he filled and his life, and that of those around him, was all the better...
What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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...departments, each with their own interests and little co-ordination between them. This lack of consultation within states was not just a problem in Britain, but also in France and the...
The woman in green who won the Khaki election
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...work then feel free to read our blogs on GOV.UK keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts follow our Foreign & Commonwealth Historians on Twitter @FCOHistorians...
History at the heart of diplomacy
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...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
What’s the context? 4 April 1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...in our work then feel free to read our blogs on GOV.UK keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts follow our Foreign & Commonwealth Historians on...
A pyrrhic victory? Victory Day, 1919
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, Foreign Office Historians
...faced by servicemen readapting to society. Spending money on the dead was another point of contention. Many veterans argued that looking after the living would be a better legacy. One...
The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
...and supervised the first free elections in February 1980. Few at the time anticipated the sweeping nature of Mugabe’s election victory or the ruthlessness with which he would exercise his...
What’s the context? The release of Nelson Mandela, 11 February 1990
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...invisible prisoner had become a symbol of South African oppression. During the 1980s ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ became a worldwide campaign. His release was an act of political courage by the...
Preparing for Helsinki: the CSCE Multilateral Preparatory Talks
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States (including an all-important Principle VII on human rights and fundamental freedoms). Basket II covered economic, scientific, technological and environmental co-operation. Basket III was devoted...