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What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...institution-building. Europe was devastated physically and economically, with millions of people displaced; nationalist uprisings, civil wars and competition for scarce resources disturbed the peace on a global scale. The new...
The Changing Face – and Faces – of Number 10 Downing Street: the geography of power since 1945
...off Whitehall, in London’s SW1 postcode, fronted by one of the world’s most iconic front doors, stands Number 10 Downing Street, the unique home and office of the British Prime...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...officials do not come well out of it. The Crabb episode provoked much discussion, including with the JIC, about new procedures for obtaining clearance for intelligence-gathering operations. Bridges himself felt,...
Hugh O’Beirne and the sinking of HMS Hampshire: a diplomat remembered
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...all those aboard, the Orkney Heritage Society yesterday unveiled a new commemorative wall next to the Kitchener Memorial, engraved with the names of all 737 men lost. One of those...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...region, not in direct aggression, but that both Britain and the US feared the Russians sought to open a new Cold War front in the Middle East. He knew the...
Teaching No.10 Downing Street's History
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jackbrown, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
Students, Ambassadors and Tutors at the K+ Spotlight Summer School, outside King's College London's Great Hall. The role of Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street is a new one,...
What’s The Context? 8 January 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana in triumph
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...arms, mounted guerrilla raids, blew up bridges, kidnapped Americans and cut off the ports from which sugar was exported, damaging the economy. Batista finally fled on New Year’s Eve 1958,...
A Century of Policy Advice at No.10 – Part One
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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Cabinet Office, Civil service, Prime Ministers and No. 10
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...the newly-installed Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, served notice that: ‘The Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several Departments, to establish...
What’s the Context? US President announces the ‘Truman Doctrine’, 12 March 1947
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...then stopped off briefly in Poland where a new communist-dominated government had been elected in what Western powers felt were rigged elections. On 2 March, Martial Law was declared in...