1968 and all that: the creation of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
...that the Indian High Commissioner asked that his right to drive in a carriage with six horses be preserved: ‘I think he had just made this up, but felt it...
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‘We shall fight on the beaches’: 3 things you never knew about Churchill’s most famous speech
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Second World War
...Instead, a BBC announcer read sections of it during the nightly news. You have, of course, heard him delivering it, but he did not make that recording until 1949, when...
The Silver Greyhound - The Messenger Service
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Keith Mitchell, Posted on:
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Civil service, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, The National Archives
...the Messenger service would last until the 20th century. Today The Corps of Queen's Messengers still exists today, as not everything can be sent by electronic or registered mail. In...
From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
The National Health Service (NHS) is seventy years old today. Founded on 5 July 1948 by Clement Attlee’s Labour government, the NHS is now the most celebrated welfare institution in...
King Charles I’s most loyal Privy Council
...and policy was channelled. Yet many individuals today do not realise what the Privy Council is and the central role it has in fact played in our nation’s history. This...
The first Christmas speech
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Matthew Glencross, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
...the newly formed BBC, wrote to the King in 1923 to inquire whether he would be interested in ‘delivering a message to his people’ on a significant holiday such as...
Prime Ministers and the Constitution
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Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Posted on:
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Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...to expand the franchise to incorporate elements of the new middle class, redistribute parliamentary seats to ensure better representation for the industrial towns, and eliminate the ‘rotten boroughs’, such as...
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Whig 1762-1763)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...George was a close one – he was a father-like figure for the young prince. Following George II’s death in October 1760, the new King promoted Bute quickly. He became...
The World’s War in Europe
...million men from the Indian subcontinent volunteered for service, producing the largest volunteer army in history. At the beginning of the war, in 1939 and 1940, there were Indian mule...
What’s the Context? 6 August 1945: an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...by Stalin and there was no sign that the Japanese leaders were ready to agree to surrender unconditionally. After the successful test at Alamogordo in New Mexico on 16 July...