The Exchequer: a chequered history?
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'It was thirty* years ago today...'
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Mark Dunton, Posted on:
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Home affairs, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The National Archives
...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...
We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
...to a rapid conclusion (his presence was necessary for signing new legislation at the end of each session). George I spent five summers in Hanover and it was en route...
Designs for living
...on design and on the development of the Arts and Crafts movement, helping to promote the idea that the design of furniture and other items for the home had as...
The Locarno Suite: ‘Drawing room for the Nation’
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Martin Redmond, Posted on:
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Art and design, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...October 1925, the delegates agreed to come to London for the formal signing of the Treaty the following December. The only possible venue for the ceremony was Scott’s Reception suite....
Running a government department - Victorian style
...Rose was allowed to resign, and promptly emigrated to Australia. In the following decades Graham had to deal with a number of challenges in running his department, starting with the...
The Prime Ministers’ people: indispensable aides to three premiers
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Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...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...
A ghost story from Number 10
...contact. You can take a tour of inside Number 10's state rooms with the virtual tour found here. Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...not achieve a significant diversion of resources from armaments to the eradication of poverty... But expectations of Kennedy’s presidency were so high that disappointment was inevitable, and many of the...
‘We shall fight on the beaches’: 3 things you never knew about Churchill’s most famous speech
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Second World War
...to ‘fighting alone’. This has led to some slight increase in doubt about the intentions of our ally [France]. Here we see the significance of Churchill’s remark that he was...