...allies in an unprecedented logistical exercise against a determined enemy. In December 1943, 3,000 people were cleared from an area of 30,000 acres in South Devon (amongst other places) so...
...suggestion Beveridge modified some recommendations, thus Keynes believed the plan to be broadly affordable.[3] The report was published on 2nd December 1942 and immediately became a best-seller at home and...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...Government was preparing to move south and the embassy would follow: ‘We are very busy packing up…Endless cases containing archives etc filled a big and small furniture van. Such a...
...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...
...consternation at the English court. Fourteenth century Anglo-French relations mostly alternated between hostile rivalry at best to periods of open conflict and war at worst. Through the alliance with Castile,...
...including the erection of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. In addition, civil war in Laos and increasing tension between South and...
...gave most weight to what was politically important to him. Controversial matters within the Conservative Party, such as the crisis in Central Africa, when white minorities opposed Macmillan's policy of...
...in southeast England. When functioning properly, the cables and the several antennae to which they were linked, allowed the station to receive long-distance radio signals. A Labrador called Rex was...
...and Wales, and in Scotland). The question included 9 boxes, 7 labelled with pre-coded categories and 2 allowing people to write in their ethnicity. The classification was: White; Black-Caribbean; Black-African;...