...officers were deployed to newspaper offices and wholesale newsagents throughout Britain, roadblocks were erected in Fleet Street, and newspaper trains were stopped en route from London. The situation was widely...
...liberties and throughout the year there are commemorations, exhibitions and activities around the anniversary, as well as lots of new books, online resources and TV and radio programmes on the...
...a new currency for all of Germany. This did not suit the Soviets, who had been stripping assets from East Germany as war reparations. In March, the Soviets argued that...
...news bulletins. Information from spy networks kept the news as accurate as possible, so that listeners trusted the station. However, all news was presented as negatively as possible to destroy...
...Potsdam, and many difficult issues remained to be settled. But in an important sense, the Potsdam Conference represented a doorway between the old world and the new. Keep tabs on...
...USA, and the Soviet Union. The new volume, Britain and the Berlin Crisis, 1961, is freely available online, and you can buy a printed copy. "Britain and the Berlin Crisis,...
...occupied the territory assigned to them. A new Turkish nationalist movement established its own representative assembly in April 1920, in Ankara rather than Istanbul, where the Sultan's government was based....
...and be published. After 60 years, this has been remedied. A new publication by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Historians reproduces the full report along with associated documents...
...Britain’s Olympic efforts, either personally or with state funding, is only a recent phenomenon. Tony Blair reacts to the news that London was to host the 2012 Olympics Most twentieth-century...
...Prime Minister (1975) Vernon Bogdanor, From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair (2000) Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since...