A ghost story from Number 10
...Dining Room, shortly after I started. Small Dining Room Number 10 We were doing a recruitment exercise for a new member of staff and I had booked the Small Dining...
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What’s the context? 22 November 1963: The death of President John F Kennedy
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...alive at the time remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. Personally, I was in a cinema in London watching the newly-released West...
What’s the Context? 4 April 1949: the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...heralding a new era of security. In his speech at the signing ceremony President Truman said he believed that if NATO had been in existence in 1914 or 1939 it...
Henrietta Maria - the forgotten Queen?
...Even pre-Civil War, Henrietta Maria, being a French Catholic, was not a popular figure in England. However, her unpopularity reached new heights in 1642, as she was now seen as...
First World War Battlefields Tour
...museums and battle sites, I was able to share my experience with the new friends that I made, explore deeply about the history of the war, and truly empathise with...
Administrators of the British Empire
...William Windham, as Secretary of State saw him separate the War and Colonial Offices. A new Under Secretary was appointed to oversee the Colonies, with a separate military Under Secretary...
Henry Pelham (Whig, 1743-1754)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...and his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, maintained this allegiance. Henry Pelham Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the...
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...within the ministry and George III’s promotion of John Stuart, Earl of Bute , led first to Pitt’s and then Newcastle’s resignation. Newcastle returned briefly to office as Lord Privy...
William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire (Whig, 1756-1757)
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Andrew Thompson, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
...reached between Newcastle, Pitt and George II. By April 1757, George had grown tired of waiting for Newcastle to come back into the fold. He sacked Pitt, provoking a protracted...
Harriet Arbuthnot and ‘the vortex of politics’
...into power & opulence in spite of the most adverse circumstances. So opposed to Canning was she that in the protracted discussions about who would be the new Prime Minister,...