...Ministry of Information, by contrast, wanted to ‘rouse the public’ by including an instruction for anyone behind enemy lines to: ‘Do everything in your power to render [the German troops’]...
...be used to illustrate Macmillan’s political techniques, such as his use of the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 to drive the resumption of nuclear information sharing with...
...is an “Edition de Luxe” of which only 325 copies were privately published, and it was “printed on handmade unbleached Arnold linen fibre with private watermark” for Colonel W. Hall...
...now shut out of progressive politics and moved towards Peel’s Conservative opposition. When Peel formed a government in 1841 he made Stanley Colonial Secretary, but there were fewer excitements in...
...his clerk Samuel Pepys as ‘a perfidious rogue’, the house was built cheaply on marshy land before being given to the First Lord of the Treasury Sir Robert Walpole by...
...St James (The National Archives: E 30/310) Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and...