...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...
...ostensibly angling for colonial concessions in Africa, was firming up his plans for action against Austria and Czechoslovakia. At the beginning of February 1938 Hitler engineered a major purge of...
...the best speech of his career setting out the case for going to war. But it was a pyrrhic victory as the war proved to be a personal catastrophe. It...
...the refusal of the Dominions of Canada and South Africa to countenance a naval arms race with the US - hesitated to commit the resources. A decade later the building...
...Cabinet despatched the Minister of Food to Washington to plead for extra wheat supplies, to avert famine in South Africa and India, and starvation in the British Zone of Germany....
...key FCO diplomats: Robin Renwick (later Ambassador to South Africa at the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison) Charles Powell (later an influential foreign policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher)...
...our publications, social media, seminars, conferences and visits to university departments The job is nothing if not varied. We are currently working on DBPO volumes covering relations with South Africa...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...