...disarmament and Far Eastern affairs. A number of agreements were reached which amounted to the end of British naval superiority: a fixed ratio of capital ships tonnage between them (Britain...
...Berlin Airlift, contributed to the formation of NATO and the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany. It also prevented the starvation of the two and a half million inhabitants...
...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...
...Brandenburg Gate, he saw the border between East and West Berlin "being blocked off with concrete and barbed wire, and columns of vehicles unloading police, soldiers and engineering stores "as...
...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...
...[viii] Memorandum by Minister of Works, 28/3/55 [ix] Cabinet minutes, 21/6/55, National Archives, CAB/128/29/16 [x] Jones, No.10 Downing Street, p.142 [xi] J. Brown & B. Draper, ‘Sir Winston Churchill’, Past...
...disagreements prompted Parliament shutting in 1629. As a result the Privy Council took on a more central role in government, functioning as the chief body through which Royal order, administration...
...into Central Asia, 1890 (Wikimedia Commons) With regards to Tibet, Russia’s proclaimed interest was in enabling their Buddhists to consult with the Dalai Lama on religious matters. Its significance was...
...the Great Seal across their closure), the document on which they were enrolled is called a Close Roll. It is essentially central government’s file copy of the letters that it...
...killing 12 and injuring 33. Air-raids breached the traditional boundary between soldiers on the battlefield and civilians at home; they brought the conflict directly to peoples’ houses, schools and workplaces;...