...a boon for supporters of the supersonic project. ‘An ungainly goose’ Although the crowd was excited, the reaction in the media was unflattering. The New York Times dismissed Concorde as...
...again Britain, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George: to punish Germany, as per the mandate on which the new government had been elected, but also wanted Germany to be...
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
...he joined the Allied Relief Commission to Poland. In May 1919, he travelled to the Baltic as part of the mission there. The newly formed Baltic states’ independence was under...
...news. The Ems Telegram, 13 July 1871, original version (GHDI image 1391) The Ems Telegram, 13 July 1871, Bismarck’s edited version (GHDI image 1392) For centuries, Germany had been a...
...answer for the new government lasting more than 6 weeks. She smilingly reminded me of this at an audience 6 years later"’[1] Macmillan found that "the Queen was a great...
An early task of any new Prime Minister is to familiarise themselves with the UK's intelligence agencies – the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Security...
...for over a quarter of a century. The idea of a woman presiding over Number 10, however, was something entirely new. How would she cope with power, with all the...
...to bring order to the Cabinet itself, in his new, peacetime role as the first Cabinet Secretary. A strong Cabinet Office organisation was built up, meetings were properly recorded and...
...Harold Wilson, then transferred the role of Head of the Home Civil Service to a newly-established Civil Service Department. Phase three began in 1981, when Margaret Thatcher, as part of...