...continued significance, some doubted whether a Prime Minister was best placed there. Yet such objections could be grounded less on principle than an aversion to a particular individual. George Canning’s...
...they seem an offering from the fauns and dryads of the woods’. Most importantly, both shared a strong sense of destiny and the conviction that they were best-placed to understand...
...Lord, who travelled to Hanover. The Secretaries of State for the Northern and Southern department were the precursors of the Foreign Secretary, and divided responsibility for Britain’s international relations between...
...plans but also to steal his thunder. Nevertheless, Hitler was well aware that the Munich agreement provided the best chance of achieving his aims without an early war. Chamberlain’s ‘piece...
...the effect of confirming, rather than undermining, Anglo-French friendship: both countries entered into ostensibly non-committal military conversations to plan how best they might cooperate if a war broke out and...
...escalating dispatches are the most thrilling thing on my feed!’; ‘creative and genuinely exciting’; ‘about the best thing I've ever seen on social media. Brilliant’. Also how it presented history...
...party to the secret project codenamed Tube Alloys were kept informed of developments, and British scientists and officials were involved with the planning process for the use of the bomb....
...off Whitehall, in London’s SW1 postcode, fronted by one of the world’s most iconic front doors, stands Number 10 Downing Street, the unique home and office of the British Prime...
...the establishment of the League of Nations, an organisation intended to promote and keep the peace. This was ironic as Germany was initially excluded from membership, with the intention that...
...4 years British, Indian and local troops, joined by South Africans, Belgians and Portuguese, had been trying to capture Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German commander of 14,000 men....