The birth of the Royal Air Force
The RAF owes its existence to a number of people but high amongst those deserving of credit are a South African Field Marshal, a Welsh politician and a Scottish Soldier....
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A very British catastrophe: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final journey
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...and the India Office. By the time Scott was building his reputation as a geographer and explorer in the early twentieth century, the ‘Scramble for Africa’ and continuing naval dominance...
What’s the Context? 20 December 1917: formation of the Cheka, the first Soviet security and intelligence agency
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...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
The Hertslets, a Family of Librarians
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, The National Archives
...The family who, arguably, implemented the foundations of the Foreign Office administration were the Hertslets - they were a family of librarians. General Map of Africa (1894) used by Sir...
South America and the power of steam
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...country? Map of the railways of South America and the International Trunk Lines. Source: The National Archives, Catalogue reference: FO 925/1600 Valparaiso in Chile was the major port for South...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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...the refusal of the Dominions of Canada and South Africa to countenance a naval arms race with the US - hesitated to commit the resources. A decade later the building...
What’s the Context? Winston Churchill’s ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech, Fulton, 5 March 1946
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...Cabinet despatched the Minister of Food to Washington to plead for extra wheat supplies, to avert famine in South Africa and India, and starvation in the British Zone of Germany....
What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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...including the erection of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. In addition, civil war in Laos and increasing tension between South and...
Curzon's comeuppance
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...the diplomatic field to himself. Experience of travelling across the Ottoman and Persian empires decades before, followed by a stint as Viceroy of India led Curzon to claim particular expertise...
What’s the context? George Brown resigns as Foreign Secretary, 15 March 1968
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...South Africa; while a large increase in the number of Kenyan Asians entering Britain caused problem for Harold Wilson on both the foreign policy and domestic front. These are only...