...from the ultimate decision-making body within the executive who would normally, as members of the regular Cabinet, be part of its processes. This change was coupled with another significant development....
...had no sons but he did have close family involved, namely his brother Charlie who was wounded fighting in British East Africa and had his left arm amputated. He also...
...as opposed to a private sanctuary. Significantly, it was a scandal involving the private life of one of his ministers – John Profumo, who was sleeping with a model named...
...the world were not on Cuba In the broader Cold War context, the international focus in 1958-9 was on Europe and the Middle East, not Latin America. In 1958 Khrushchev...
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...Street. The Garden Suburb represented a significant augmentation in the support available to the Prime Minister. Before this point, the only full-time official staff available at No.10 was a group...
...thought that their signals might also be collected. If the Germans then became aware of this and changed their codes, the intelligence advantage would be lost. Only when the Admiralty...
...America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.' Commons Wikimedia Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...examples do occur, we can be sure that their creation was significant. One of the earliest deliberate post-Conquest uses of English by government dates from October 1258. It relates to...
...George, supported by the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law, threatened to resign from the government unless the Prime Minister agreed to turn over responsibility for the day-to-day running of the...
...alongside the construction of an air raid shelter in the basement, had proved inadequate, leaving several rooms unstable.[ix] Many of the diseased walls were also significantly ‘out of true’ (i.e....