...team called the Statistical Section. The central purpose of the Section was to keep him informed about the allocation of resources involved in the Second World War. It was led...
...central assertion about the rights of a constitutional monarch, as defined by Walter Bagehot in 1867, remains as true as ever: ‘the sovereign has under a constitutional monarchy such as...
...finance as central to executive politics. It defined the framework of Victorian national finances for the rest of the century. The government was not devoid of legislative achievement. During the...
...promote his image, and undermine his opponents. A central figure in this operation was Thomas Gordon, who oversaw literary output while holding the official title of First Commissioner of Wine...
...War, 1898-1914 Volume XI: The Outbreak of War, 28 June – 4 August 1914. Our 1914 diplomats and officials tweeted from their respective accounts and were re-tweeted from a central...
...member of its central office staff. These give dates of birth, appointments and promotions, and of retirement, resignation or death. For those who served in the First World War the...
...the central and critical decisions taken in this period. Diaries may also reflect the private desires of the author at the expense of accuracy. All sources should be read and...
...the visit to the UK of Soviet leaders Bulganin and Khrushchev, respectively Premier and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was...
...of constitutionalism seemed to be battling those of absolutism – in the Iberian peninsula, in central Europe, in the Ottoman Empire – Britain’s ability to position itself at the forefront...
...Ref Ca 1062. Imperial conflict While these are central elements of the campaign they also need to be seen in the context of what, on both sides, was a wider...