The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
Forty years ago, on 21 December 1979, an agreement was signed at Lancaster House. It brought an end to the illegal white-dominated regime that had ruled Rhodesia since the Unilateral...
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When the Wall went up: Britain and the Berlin Crisis, 1961
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...a threat to sign a separate peace treaty with the GDR if no agreement was reached over Berlin. This separate treaty would end the occupation of East Berlin by Soviet...
What’s the Context? Occupying Powers sign Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, 3 September 1971
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...September 1971) Fifty years ago, Ambassadors representing the 4 Occupying Powers in Germany—France, the UK, US and USSR—signed an agreement on Berlin. This included documents concerning access, communications, and the...
Number 10 under Lloyd George 1916-1922
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Kenneth O Morgan, Posted on:
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Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...O Morgan. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past: sign up for our email alerts...
The Institution of Prime Minister
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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
...there a man who has so much power, with so little to show for it in the way of formal title or prerogative’. Yet in the same year a significant...
Margaret Thatcher and the Joint Intelligence Committee
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Ian B Beesley and Dr Michael S Goodman, Posted on:
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Civil service, Defence and conflict, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...Goodman . This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past: sign up for our email alerts...
Prime Ministers and the Olympic Games
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Professor Kevin Jefferys, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers
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D R Thorpe, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, The Monarchy
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
Maurice Hankey: Architect of Modern Government
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W J R Gardner, Posted on:
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Cabinet Secretaries, No 10 guest historian series
...R Gardner. This article was produced as part of the No10 Guest Historian series, coordinated by History & Policy. Keep tabs on the past: sign up for our email alerts...
Prime Ministers and Presidents: special relationships
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Professor David Reynolds, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...as military intelligence and nuclear weaponry the relationship has been literally ‘special’ – in other words, there is nothing like it among America’s ties with other states. Subsequent articles on...