...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...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...
...Minister Sir Robert Walpole’s arrival in 1735. From above, No. 10 looks like an offset square, sticking out to the rear at the end of the south-facing terrace of houses...
...to move the Landeswehr further south, away from the Lettish army they had been recently fighting. Initially, the Landeswehr feared that they would either be used in unwinnable situations, or...
...Rhodesian Peace Pact at Lancaster House in London, granting Zimbabwe (former Southern Rhodesia) its independence, December 21, 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) FCO Historians are marking the 40th anniversary by...
...project codenamed TUBE ALLOYS. From 1943 he worked in the US on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb, and from 1947 at the British nuclear establishment at Harwell. Fuchs...