1914: Remembering Kingston at War
Communities across the United Kingdom are marking the First World War centenary through numerous projects thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Members of the public have been...
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Prime Ministers in the First World War
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Simon Ball, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...society but are united in the resolve to defend the particular society to which they belong.’ Strengthened faith in Britain They were the ‘regulars’ who emerged from the War with...
Chaos and Censorship in the Second World War
...claim was subsequently repeated in a second broadcast by the French author Roland Dorgeles. Before long, it had been cabled to the USA and spread worldwide by the United Press...
A private public record office: Tony Benn as a political diarist
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Mark Wickham-Jones, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, The National Archives
...for 1 December 1976 refer to United States president Gerald Ford as a ‘lame duck’. The minutes state Benn arguing that ‘the country was in the depth of a slump...
Administrators of the British Empire
...parliamentary triumphs or promotion. The end of the war with France saw the Colonial Office remain as a Colonial and not a Military Department and both Lord Bathurst, Private Secretary,...
What’s the Context? 4 February 1945: the Yalta Conference opens
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the details that affected individual countries. Roosevelt’s other pet project, the United Nations, would, he was determined, ensure a peaceful environment that permitted US disengagement. The Second World War had...
Lord Frederick North
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Professor Arthur Burns, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...(1773) which was a significant factor in provoking the American War of Independence Interesting facts North was in office when the United States of America declared independence Keep tabs on...
What’s the context? 1 December 1925: signing the Locarno Treaties
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Dr Luke Gibbon and Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, What's the context? series
...Foreign Ministers who would dominate European diplomacy for the rest of the 1920s: Austen Chamberlain (United Kingdom), Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Left to right: Gustav Stresemann, Austen...
King Charles I’s most loyal Privy Council
...1593 (The National Archives, Catalogue reference: SP 112/91/25). On 23rd July, Jane Toster and her two daughters were granted a pass to travel to the Dutch United Provinces to see...
Lord Aberdeen
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Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...a friendship with the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and promotion to the United Kingdom peerage in 1814. But he did not hold office again until 1828, devoting himself instead...