Today's release of Prime Minister’s Office records and Cabinet Papers from 1985-1986 covers the mid-point of the Thatcher premiership. If this period is beyond your living memory, you might be...
...telephone and the typewriter were ubiquitous, pneumatic tubes carried messages around the building and telegrams were sent by often laborious analogue methods. The Tube Room, 1987 (FCO) Today’s diverse workforce...
...battle of Hastings contrast with the more national character of those in Britain. Returning to Reilly’s letter of 4th February, he informs his colleagues that “French children are taught today...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...as a central organising machine and keep the minutes: the beginnings of today’s Cabinet Office. And, impinging directly on Number 10, Lloyd George chose his own secretariat, a novel group...
...latter recommendation was to lead to the formation of the Foreign Office Planning Staff (today the FCDO Strategy Unit). This fulfilled Butler’s wish that his study might make a ‘small...
...background to this significant development, from The National Archives website . And so, today, 1st August, The National Archives is releasing Prime Minister’s Office records, Cabinet Papers and Home Office...
How Britain built the most powerful radio transmitter in the world, and gave Goebbels ‘something to worry about'. Crowborough, the site of Aspidistra, as it is today Source: Nick Catford,...
...I believe Korea is the place. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, en route to Colombo Conference in January 1950[i] Seventy years ago today, the North Korean People’s Army of the Democratic...
...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...