...Appointments to the diplomatic service were often based upon recommendations and who you knew. This resulted in British Consuls and Vice Consuls around the world being related in some way....
...House of Commons. A new model of leadership If Pitt’s political fortunes would be determined in part by the impact of events such as the French Revolution and Wars, and...
...away, holding onto it through Lord Liverpool’s premiership, but did not reach the cabinet until 1827. With like-minded ‘liberal Tory’ colleagues, he resigned the following year from Wellington’s new government,...
...principles of the new discipline of political economy, and by his trilogy of novels urging paternalistic politics. Most famously, he attacked the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, contributing to his...
Sir Maurice Hankey, 1921 (Library of Congress) A century ago today, David Lloyd George, the new Prime Minister, held the first meeting of his War Cabinet. In the process he...
...expanded into new areas of work, the biggest relating to the economic blockade of Germany. This developed in February 1916 into the Ministry of Blockade, nominally under the control of...
...Mexican Government. It indicated that the new policy on submarine warfare might bring Germany and the USA into conflict, and asked if, in such an event, Mexico would be willing...
When governments communicate, the medium can be as valuable as the message. In the modern age of instant news and response through social media, it is often easy to lose...
...wartime, the intelligence community had a hard time against the new Soviet threat. In March 1946, the JIC even admitted its reports were speculative given the ‘limited evidence’ on Soviet...
...according to historian Max Jones, became ‘the new orthodoxy’, and attacking him was ‘something of a national pastime since Huntford’s intervention’. Reputation restored Lord Curzon and Roland Huntford both had...