Harriet Arbuthnot and ‘the vortex of politics’
...into power & opulence in spite of the most adverse circumstances. So opposed to Canning was she that in the protracted discussions about who would be the new Prime Minister,...
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What’s the Context? 4 February 1945: the Yalta Conference opens
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...train to Yalta from Moscow. He controlled the physical aspect of the Conference, which included bugging his foreign guests’ quarters. This meant he knew some of what they were thinking:...
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...was limited. His interests, instead, were in improving his estates and horse racing. Rockingham remained attached to Newcastle and thought of resigning his post in the royal household, following Newcastle’s...
The women of the Second World War
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Samantha Reid and Robert Hansberry, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Second World War
...this time with their photographs and paintings. Here Cecil Beaton captures a welder working on the deck of a new ship in Tyneside, 1943. ©Crown Copyright IWM A member of...
What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...the European endgame Sir Winston Churchill. Image by United Nations Information Office, New York [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsPrime Minster Winston Churchill and Commander in Chief Field Marshal Montgomery repeatedly...
“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...STAT 20/290) With the fruition of the women’s suffrage movement leading to women over 30 gaining the vote, the pressures of a new female electorate allowed progressive changes in law....
Invasion Publicity during the Second World War
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Dr Henry Irving, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Home affairs, Second World War
...found ‘refugee-ing about the roads … deserves to be shot’. Most other newspapers reprinted the seven rules in full. The Public’s Response The public’s reaction was more complicated. Anecdotal reports...
Lord Frederick North
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...King turned as his new premier when Grafton resigned as Prime Minister (a term North never used of himself) in January 1770. Exceptionally conscientious North was an exceptionally conscientious first...
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...of George Canning, often presented as the embodiment of a new liberal Toryism, was one factor in his retirement from politics in 1824, two years after he ceased to be...
Sir Edward Grey: a fitting tribute
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...memorial in the precincts of either Westminster Abbey or the Palace of Westminster, was dashed by a new rule which barred such memorials until ten years after a person’s death....