...South African economy. Sanctions may not have had much direct impact, but white South Africans felt deeply their isolation from international cricket and rugby. An Anti-apartheid protest demonstration taking place...
...I, Vol. X, No. 27. [iii] DBPO, Series I, Vol. X, No. 11. [v] DBPO, Series I, Vol. VIII, No. 56. [vi] DBPO, Series I, Vol. X, No. 54. ...
...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;...
...parliamentary triumphs or promotion. The end of the war with France saw the Colonial Office remain as a Colonial and not a Military Department and both Lord Bathurst, Private Secretary,...
The RAF owes its existence to a number of people but high amongst those deserving of credit are a South African Field Marshal, a Welsh politician and a Scottish Soldier....
...Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, and at the Battle of Monte Cassino between January and May 1944. The Royal Indian Navy fought in the North Atlantic and the...
The 3 Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski ‘Il y a du nouveau’ On 26 July 1939, in the Pyry Forest south of Warsaw, Polish cryptologists revealed...
Section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the fighting at the battle of Hastings (Source: Wiki Commons) It is approaching 950 years since William the Conqueror triumphed at the battle of...
...People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) swept south across the 38th parallel. This had divided the Korean peninsula as Japanese troops were driven out by the Allies at the end of...
...confidential go-between, conveying messages between them. From the outset, Lloyd George assumed total control in a way unknown to Herbert Henry Asquith or his predecessors. He appointed a five-man War...