...The family who, arguably, implemented the foundations of the Foreign Office administration were the Hertslets - they were a family of librarians. General Map of Africa (1894) used by Sir...
...country? Map of the railways of South America and the International Trunk Lines. Source: The National Archives, Catalogue reference: FO 925/1600 Valparaiso in Chile was the major port for South...
...in 1912 on the tragic Terra Nova expedition – a voyage whose tragic end was compounded by the fact Scott was beaten to the South Pole by the technically superior...
Sunday 15 October marks the centenary of the execution of Madame MacLeod, neé Margaretha Zelle, best known as Mata Hari. A Dutch dancer, in the early twentieth century she was...
...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...
...century as a critic of the British war in South Africa – a stance which had earned him the enmity of Tory imperialists. According to one legend, he had been...
...were success stories. In South Africa, apartheid was unravelling and British diplomats were giving their support to the reform efforts of President F.W. de Klerk. Nelson Mandela was released from...
...she were defeated she would not surrender her fleet but would send it to South Africa, Australia, Canada and other parts of the Empire. If this were done, American intervention...
...South Africa; while a large increase in the number of Kenyan Asians entering Britain caused problem for Harold Wilson on both the foreign policy and domestic front. These are only...
...arrive and were often written in code in case they were stolen by foreign spies. When his conduct at the 1814 Congress of Vienna was later challenged in Parliament, Castlereagh...