...radical on several different fronts, including welfare and pension reform, the need for significant reductions in public expenditure, and the need for further privatisation. Redwood’s memos are always clearly written...
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...members of his cabinet to remain in London over the weekend so that he could consult them further following negotiations. Communications 1970s style The Cabinet minutes also include a significant...
...full flow, he simply said ‘No’. Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19) It is difficult to envisage a twenty-first century politician passing up the opportunity to promote their...
...the expenses claimed for each journey, and using these records you can trace an individual messenger's career. In 1824 Lewis Hertslet was promoted to Superintendent of Messengers. His changes to...
...unbreakable’. The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty On 4 April 1949, at the signing ceremony, the United States Marine Band Orchestra played a medley from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess....
...Civil War (Aldershot, 2006) Bone, Q., Henrietta Maria: Queen of the Cavaliers (Wiltshere, 1973) Marshall, R., Henrietta Maria, The Intrepid Queen (London, 1990) Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for...
...the map. Along with rapidly developing aerial reconnaissance techniques radio signals were used as beacons for the first time to synchronise sightings of observation planes over enemy positions - sophisticated...
...of 1710 to 1714. Copyright Andrew Thompson. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past. Sign...
...in southeast England. When functioning properly, the cables and the several antennae to which they were linked, allowed the station to receive long-distance radio signals. A Labrador called Rex was...