Henrietta Maria - the forgotten Queen?
...Even pre-Civil War, Henrietta Maria, being a French Catholic, was not a popular figure in England. However, her unpopularity reached new heights in 1642, as she was now seen as...
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Wartime in Paris: an Ambassador tweets
Dr Richard Smith reveals an exciting new Twitter project by the FCO Historians In 1914 Sir Francis Bertie held the plum posting in the British Diplomatic Service—the ambassadorship to Paris....
First World War Battlefields Tour
...museums and battle sites, I was able to share my experience with the new friends that I made, explore deeply about the history of the war, and truly empathise with...
Administrators of the British Empire
...William Windham, as Secretary of State saw him separate the War and Colonial Offices. A new Under Secretary was appointed to oversee the Colonies, with a separate military Under Secretary...
Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...and his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, maintained this allegiance. Henry Pelham Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the...
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...the War of the Polish Succession was the first sign of serious tension between him and Newcastle. Newcastle realised more quickly than Walpole the strength of public feeling that led...
William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire (Whig, 1756-1757)
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...reached between Newcastle, Pitt and George II. By April 1757, George had grown tired of waiting for Newcastle to come back into the fold. He sacked Pitt, provoking a protracted...
Harriet Arbuthnot and ‘the vortex of politics’
...letter. Pious as this may sound it actually represents the truth; the friendship between Harriet and the Duke of Wellington was profoundly important to each of them but platonic. Indeed,...
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...was limited. His interests, instead, were in improving his estates and horse racing. Rockingham remained attached to Newcastle and thought of resigning his post in the royal household, following Newcastle’s...
The women of the Second World War
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Defence and conflict, Second World War
...this time with their photographs and paintings. Here Cecil Beaton captures a welder working on the deck of a new ship in Tyneside, 1943. ©Crown Copyright IWM A member of...