...arrive and were often written in code in case they were stolen by foreign spies. When his conduct at the 1814 Congress of Vienna was later challenged in Parliament, Castlereagh...
...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...
...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...
...speculation in South America, and his first novel was condemned for its immaturity and crude character assassinations of society figures. After a nervous breakdown, he produced a stream of novels...
...key FCO diplomats: Robin Renwick (later Ambassador to South Africa at the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison) Charles Powell (later an influential foreign policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher)...
...our publications, social media, seminars, conferences and visits to university departments The job is nothing if not varied. We are currently working on DBPO volumes covering relations with South Africa...
...century as a critic of the British war in South Africa – a stance which had earned him the enmity of Tory imperialists. According to one legend, he had been...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
...(Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) For the 1966 World Cup, FIFA allocated just one place at the tournament for a team from either Africa, Asia and Oceania. The man in charge...