The No10 Guest Historian series
...Downing Street. The H&P editors are Dr Andrew Thompson and Dr Ben Griffin, of Cambridge University, and Dr Andrew Blick, of King’s College London. H&P is a unique collaboration between...
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We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
...also returned frequently to Hanover, making twelve trips between 1727 and 1760. Overall, the first two Georges were absent for roughly one-in-three summers between 1714 and 1760. Discontent at royal...
What’s the context? The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 - 10 November 1989
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...states would negotiate with the four occupying powers, proved successful: not least because Gorbachev made the key concession that a united Germany would be free to choose which alliance it...
What’s the Context? 4 February 1945: the Yalta Conference opens
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The Yalta Myth Between 4 and 11 February 1945, while the Second World War still raged both in Europe and in the Far East, the ‘Big Three’—Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill—met...
What’s the Context? 26 July 1956: Nasser announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal
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...Americans still thought it better to keep him in power as a bulwark against the USSR. The poor relationship between Eden and US Secretary of State Dulles, who thought Britain...
Teaching No.10 Downing Street's History
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...and the product of a partnership between No.10, the Policy Institute at King’s College London, King’s Widening Participation Department, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and award-winning charity The Brilliant Club. Having many...
A very British catastrophe: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final journey
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...with the goal of being the first person in history to reach the South Pole. The story, however, did not play out as planned: using better navigation and much better...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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...their way to surrender Singapore to General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Japanese Imperial Army. Commons Wikimedia On 27 January, as the disaster unfolded, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons:...
Rebuilding No. 10 Downing Street
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...1989), p.266 [viii] C. Jones, No.10 Downing Street: The Story of a House (London: BBC, 1985), p.154 [ix] R. J. Minney, No.10 Downing Street: A House in History (Boston: Little,...
What’s the context? US Secretary of State proposes a ‘Marshall Plan’ for the reconstruction of Europe, 5 June 1947
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...between 1948 and 1950, the US channelled $12 billion into the European Recovery Programme. Britain received the lion’s share of $2.7 billion. The US offer and Soviet response set the...