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...
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What’s the context? Polish cryptologists reveal they have cracked the Enigma code, 26 July 1939
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Polish Signals Bureau sent a coded message to his French counterpart on 30 June that ‘there is a new development’. This was not a cryptologic breakthrough, but a willingness to...
Gallipoli: 100 years on
April sees commemorations across the globe of the initial landings in a campaign centred on the Dardanelles Strait and the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. For Turkey, Australia and New Zealand...
South America and the power of steam
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...and entrepreneurs arrived to make their fortunes. Welsh, Irish and Germans emigrated to make new lives in the newly opened markets and the cities. The SS Minosa1 left Liverpool in...
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...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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Dr Luke Gibbon, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...prestige of European imperialism. Loyalty and deference to the British Empire in Asia and the Pacific crumbled. Even New Zealand and Australia, traditionally the most loyal of the British Dominions,...
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
...was uncertain. The US still controlled Japan, now regarding it as less as a security threat than as potential help against the USSR. Australia and New Zealand, though not included...
What’s the Context? 20 December 1917: formation of the Cheka, the first Soviet security and intelligence agency
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...source: newworldencyclopedia.org Before the October Revolution in 1917 that put the Bolsheviks in power in Russia, their long-exiled leader, Lenin, had insisted publicly that in a proletarian dictatorship there would...
Prime Ministers and their Foreign Secretaries
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...Not that the going was always smooth between these Foreign Secretaries and their Prime Ministers. Castlereagh’s diplomatic tour of Europe between 1814-15 took him to the Hague, through Germany, into...
What’s the Context? D-Day, 6 June 1944
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-western Europe. After months of detailed planning, involving much discussion, a certain amount of friction between Allied military and civilian authorities, and...