Sir Maurice Hankey, 1921 (Library of Congress) A century ago today, David Lloyd George, the new Prime Minister, held the first meeting of his War Cabinet. In the process he...
...public life – to observe different standards from those prevalent today in many circles. Macmillan perceived himself as speaking from inside the confines of the British political community, and was...
...MPs. Such behaviour lost her friends and allies. Nancy was a woman of strong beliefs; the depth of these feelings means that her reputation today is somewhat tarnished. She was...
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
...her political beliefs, her personal qualities would both attract and repel people today. She rejected the opportunity to live a quiet life of luxury in order to be politically active,...
...siege operations. Their role and duties to some extent resembled those of the Royal Engineers today. For instance a payment of £88 was made to John Janyn, master carpenter, and...
...I should view with distaste any interference with the vitality of the great tree”. Both monuments were later moved following the relocation of the embassy in 1926. Today, they stand...
Today a memorial service is held at Westminster Abbey for the former foreign secretary Lord (Peter) Carrington, who died last July aged 99. Over a life-time of public service, he...
...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,...
...four times Chancellor before he was four time Prime Minister – who developed the Exchequer into recognisably modern form. He did not envisage anything like today’s welfare state, being obsessed...