What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...that it would be better to deal with the Western Allies as occupiers than Soviet Russia. The high casualty rate was also a result of Soviet haste. Stalin had delayed...
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“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...STAT 20/290) With the fruition of the women’s suffrage movement leading to women over 30 gaining the vote, the pressures of a new female electorate allowed progressive changes in law....
Invasion Publicity during the Second World War
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Dr Henry Irving, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Home affairs, Second World War
...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...
Lord Frederick North
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...King turned as his new premier when Grafton resigned as Prime Minister (a term North never used of himself) in January 1770. Exceptionally conscientious North was an exceptionally conscientious first...
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...of George Canning, often presented as the embodiment of a new liberal Toryism, was one factor in his retirement from politics in 1824, two years after he ceased to be...
What’s the context? 1 December 1925: signing the Locarno Treaties
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Dr Luke Gibbon and Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...and Briand for their efforts on Locarno. The previous year it had been shared between Chamberlain for his promotion of the treaty and the American Charles Dawes for his work...
Sir Edward Grey: a fitting tribute
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...memorial in the precincts of either Westminster Abbey or the Palace of Westminster, was dashed by a new rule which barred such memorials until ten years after a person’s death....
What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...taken from these documents unless otherwise stated. The two men agreed on many points: but aspects of Roberts’ reporting shed interesting light on the global context and on differences between...
The Changing Face – and Faces – of Number 10 Downing Street: the geography of power since 1945
...off Whitehall, in London’s SW1 postcode, fronted by one of the world’s most iconic front doors, stands Number 10 Downing Street, the unique home and office of the British Prime...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...Berlin, built by Western intelligence to listen in to Soviet landlines. In fact, plans for the tunnel had been betrayed by SIS officer George Blake to Soviet intelligence even before...