...bomb was tested successfully in New Mexico. Its use, on 6 and 9 August, would lead to Japanese surrender and the final end to the global conflict. At Potsdam, Truman...
Sixty years ago simmering Cold-War tensions were dramatically brought to a head in Berlin. A new volume of documents from the FCDO Historians tells how Britain responded to the crisis...
...occupied the territory assigned to them. A new Turkish nationalist movement established its own representative assembly in April 1920, in Ankara rather than Istanbul, where the Sultan's government was based....
...and be published. After 60 years, this has been remedied. A new publication by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Historians reproduces the full report along with associated documents...
...Britain’s Olympic efforts, either personally or with state funding, is only a recent phenomenon. Tony Blair reacts to the news that London was to host the 2012 Olympics Most twentieth-century...
...Prime Minister (1975) Vernon Bogdanor, From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair (2000) Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since...
...hope of instigating legal action against the WSPU leaders. February 1913 marked a new stage in the women’s suffrage campaign for, as Mrs Pankhurst threatened in her Cardiff speech, the...
...his targets were thinly veiled - to trail new political ideas which were to come to fruition later on in the Thatcher premiership. John Redwood, MP continues to use the...
...the backdrop of new civilian responsibilities – producing maps for land valuation and tax purposes – and the Edwardian love of exploration fuelling the growth in sales of leisure maps-...
...an age when a new monarch typically meant a new administration. His approach to politics relied on careful management of the House of Commons and a tendency to avoid confrontation...