The birth of the Royal Air Force
...of aerial operations”. He chose Smuts, who was a member of the British War Cabinet, representing the Union of South Africa in what was then very much a British Empire...
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They seek him here… the life and death of the Red Baron
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...The term 'ace' is generally taken to mean any fighter pilot credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
The raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend
...prefix their names with ‘Royal’. In 1919 they returned to their duties carrying civilians. Further reading London Gazette Despatches https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31189/supplement/251 Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
A very British catastrophe: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final journey
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...the Polar Plateau and made many significant contributions to scientific knowledge. Elsewhere, he is portrayed as a charlatan whose bungling incompetence cost the lives of six men, including his own,...
From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
The Battle of Amiens
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...in March 1918." The Journal of Military History 68, no. 3 (2004): 771-820. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed July 17, 2018); http://www.johndclare.net/wwi3_LG_WarMemoirs.htm Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...was important to ‘increase strains’ on the Soviet bloc by promoting bilateral ties, but ‘not at the expense of the Soviet Union’ (whatever that meant). The West accepted, however, that...
The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, contracted it on 12 September. It was not even discussed in Parliament until late October 1918. Yet the warning signs were already there. Chemists...
The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...hour. The original armistice was for a period of 36 days, after which it had to be renewed. This was done four times before the Treaty of Versailles was signed....
History at the heart of diplomacy
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...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...